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Published by the 
STATE OF WISCONSW 

Madison. 1917 



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FISH AND GAME 



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PRESERVING THE FOREST 



Preserve This Book 



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FOR 



TWO YEARS 

p. of D- 

MAY 25 !913 



FOREWORD. 



In presenting this pamphlet of Wisconsin Fish 
and Game Laws, we believe that we are handing 
you a comprehensive and effective code of laws for 
the conservation and protection of fish and game 
and at the same time, giving the people legitimate 
opportunity for the enjoyment of these resources, 
as was ever presented to the citizens of any State. 

These laws represent many weeks of diligent 
study and hard work by the Wisconsin Legislature 
and the Conservation Commission, with the ob- 
ject in view of giving the people every opportunity 
of using these resources, consistent with Nature's 
laws for proper conservation. In no instance has 
it been the object of either the legislature or the 
Conservation Commission to place such restrictions 
in the laws as would deny the people abundant op- 
portunity for the enjoyment of these resources, 
and the open seasons, and bag limits prescribed are 
generous in their provisions. 

For the enforcement of the limitations prescribed 
in these laws severe penalties are provided for any 
violation of its provisions. Fifty Dollars being the 
minimum and One Thousand Dollars the maximum 
fines provided, together with the cancelling of the 
license of the offender. These heavy penalties, we 
believe, wTll meet with the approval of every right- 
thinking citizen, as it will surely produce a whole- 
some respect for the law and result in materially 
increasing the supply of fish and game in Wis- 
consin. 



The courts have held that flsh and game belong 
to all of the people, and all should enjoy an equ*l i 
opportunity in the use of them, and we believe 
that adequate laws are herein provided to protect 
all in their rights' with just punishment to the of- 
fenders. 

The protective organizations throughout the State 
Y/ield a powerful influence, for conservation and 
this Commission have enjoyed their hearty coop- 
eration in the enforcement of the laws and in edu 
eating the people to a proper understanding of the 
value of wild life resources to the people. We 
anticipate that this same feeling will continue in 
the future as it has in the past, which insures for 
the coming two years added interest among the 
people for a respectful observance of the laws. 

All violations of the law, the enforcement of 
which the Conservation Commission is responsible, 
will be vigorously prosecuted. Information of such, 
violations should be reported as promptly as pos- 
sible to the Commission or to a Conservation War- 
den. 

STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 



Hunting 



Fac* 

NO PERSON shall be permitted to hunt In the 
istate of "Wisconsin without having first pur- 
chased a hunting license from the county 
clerk of the county in which such person re- 
sides 34 

NO PERSON who has not reached the age of 15 
years and no person who is not full citizen 
of the United States shall be permitted to 
hunt in the state of Wisconsin 34 

HUNTING DEFINED 24 

WILD ANIMAL DEFINED 23 

LICENSES. 

Resident hunting licenses 36 

Settlers' hunting licenses 36 

Duplicate licenses 35 

Nonresident hunting licenses 37 

Trappers' licenses 38 

Guide licenses 51 

GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

Open and close seasons, bag limits 41-43 

Game bird huntin g 53 

Sunrise and sunset shooting 53 

Open water 53 

Open water shooting 53 

Decoys (live) 54 

Decoys (artificial) 53 

Decoys (left unattended) 53 

TRANSPORTATION of deer, birds, and other 

game 80-82 

INTER-STATE TRANSPORTATION 8i 

POSSESSION of deer, birds and other game.. 77, 7S 

POISON BAITS for wolves, wild cat and lynx.. 100 

DEER TAGS 36, 77 

TRUNKS and VALISES 80 



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RESTRICTED METHODS of hunting 51-53 

SALE OF GAME prohibited 85 

SERVING OF GAME prohibited 85 

GUNS CARRIED in vehicles 51 

FERRETS in possession 51 

RABBIT hunting 515 

DEER hunting 52 

LIGHTS for shining deer 5? 

DEER heads and skins 77 

SKINS of fur bearing animals 78 

HUNTING fur bearing animals 53 

TRAPPING law 38 

BEAVER LAW (Price, Rusk and Sawyd'r coun- 
ties only) 94-95 

FEDERAL LAWS 110 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 



Fishing 



(INLAND WATERS) 

Page 

Fish classified 2b 

Waters classified 23 

Open and close season, size limit, bag limit.. 41-43 

Public nuisances 24 

FISH DEFINED as wild animal 23 

NONRESIDENT FISHING LICENSES 38 

SET LINE licenses 75 

NET LICENSES for taking cisco and whitefish 72 
Waters in which there is no close season for 

hook fishing 4^ 

ICE fishing 56 

Spearing fish 55-56 

Fishing shanties 57 

Dynamite, use of 57 

Medicated bait, use of 57 

DIP NETS 62 

NETS, use of 60 

MINNOW NET^ 62 

POLLUTING inland waters C7-5S 

PROHIBITED methods of fishing. 55 

DAMS, fishing near 54 

TRANSPORTATION of game fish 82-83 

TRANSPORTATION of fish by nonresidents S9, 82-83 

TRANSPORTATION of fish by residents 82-83 

POSSESSION of game fish 77 

RUSH LAKE, fishing in 48 

BLACK BASS cannot be sold 85 

MUSKELLUNGE cannot be sold 85 

TROUT cannot be sold (except lake trout) 85 



g Statb Conservation Commission. 

Page 
DOGFISH MINNOWS shipment alive prohib- 
ited '. 84 

CAJIP MINNOWS shipment alive prohibited 84 

MISSISSIPPI RIVER, net and set line fishing. . 69 

WINNEBAGO WATERS, net and set line fishing 73 

ULKE MICHIGAN commercial fishing. 

Nets, license fees, open and close season, 
size of fish, possession and transportation of j 
fish, reserve waters, fines and penalties, can- 
cellation of license, tags 63-69 i 

(A) I 

LAKE SUPERIOR, commercial fishing 63-69 ' 

(A) : 

GREEN BAY, commercial fishing 63-69 

(A) ' 

MINNOW NETS in outlying waters 62 i 

GILL NETS for catching bloaters for bait 67 ' 

CLAMMING LAWS 76 

FROG LAW 48 

ROUGH FISH removed by state 10:i 

CRAWFISH LAW 48 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 9 



General Index 



Pagt 

BOUNTIES, paid by state or county 96-lOi 

CONSERVATION FUND 109-llU 

CLAMMING laws 71 

CANCELLATION OF LICENSES. 

Crawfish ^8 

DAMS, abandoned 25 

DAMAGE by muskrats 93 

By beaver S3 

By deer 95 

DOGS, in camps M 

In field 54 

DEFINITIONS of person 106 

Of wild animal 23 

Of hunting 24 

Of public nuisances 24 

FEDERAL LAWS 110 

FROGS 48 

GUIDES, as special wardens 52 

INTER-STATE COMITY, (sbipi^ients) » 

PENALTIES 104 

POLICE POWERS of wardens 26 

CONFISCATIONS, how disposed of 29 

PRIVATE hatcheries and fish ponds S9 

POISONED BAIT for wolves, wild cat and lynx 100 
POWERS OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION 

( general ) 40 

POWERS OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION 

(to issue orders ^Taking change in law) 49 

PUBLIC NUISANCES 24 

REFUGE for game in Forest county 91 

REFUGE for wild life may be established 91-93 

REWARD to informers lOS 

ROUGH FISH may be removed by state (waters 

excepted ) 102 

SCIENTISTS' CERTIFICATES, how issued 40 

TITLE TO wild animals in the state 24 

TRAPPING laws 38 

UNLICENSED NETS or traps of any kind (de- 
clared public nuisances and may be seized) 24-25 
WARDENS, exemption from liability 29 



10 State Conservation Commission. 



Penalties 



Altering license. (Sec. 4562b) $500 to $1000 

Counterfeiting state conservation 

seal or tag. (Sec. 4562d) 200 to 500 

Dynamite, use of. (Sec. 29.29-1) __ 200 to 500 

False representation as conservation 

warden. (Sec. 4562a) Not more than $100 

False statement as to residence in 
application for hunting licen-se. 
(Sec. 4562c) • $500 to $1000 

Gill nets in inland waters. (S3c. 

29 63-a) , 200 to 500 

Snag lines, use of. (Sec. 29.27-2) 100 to 200 

Serving of venison, game birds, wild 
animals, certain game fish, etc. 
(Sec. 29.49-3) 200 to 50U 

Free lunch consisting of venison, 
game birds, wild animals, certain 
game fish, etc. (Sec. 29.49-2-3) 200 to 500 

Beaver law. (Sec. 29.59-6) 200 to 500 

Removing or destroying state confis- 
cation tags, or meddling or inter- 
fering with any article, package, 
box, barrel, fish, bird, animal or 
carcass to which a state confisca- 
tion seal or tag is attached. (Sec. 
45.62d) 200 to 500 

Taking fish from state hatchery 

ponds. (Sec. 45.62e) 100 to 200 

Taking fish from private state regis- 
tered hatchery or fish pond with- 
out consent of owner if lands are 
properly posted. (Owner must 
prosecute.) (Sec. 29.52_5) 15 to 25 



Statutes Relating to Wiijd Animals. 11 

Traiisi)ortation. 

Any violation of the transporta- 
tion law $50 to $100 

Agents shipping deer without 

coupon. (Sec. 29.63) 50 to 100 

Agents shipping deer out of state 
on resident coupon. (Sec. 
29.63) 50 to 100 

Agents shipping game birds 50 to 100 

Agents accepting shipments of 
fish without first securing 
the owner's signed certifi- 
cate 50 to 100 

Agents shipping game fish out of 
state without necessary cou- 
pon. (Sec. 29.14-2): 25 to 50 

Lake Michigan, Lake Sui3erior» Green Bay 

Any violation of the outlying 
waters commercial fishing 

laws. (Sec. 29.33-11) 300 to 500 

Violation of any fish and game law 
for which no specific penalty is 
mentioned. (Sec. 29.63) 50 to lOO 

In addition to these penalties if the violation was 
under any license issued; the license shall be taken 
up and no such license shall be issued to the per- 
son convicted for a period of one year. (Sec. 
29.63-3) . 



Following is a list of state conservation Avardens, 
Please advise your nearest warrlen cr the commis- 
sion at Madison of any violations of the fish and 
game laws of which you mfiy be aware. Such in- 
icrmation will be held strictly confidential. 



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WISCONSIN STATUTES 1917 

CHAPTER 29 

Wild Animals, and the Reg^ulation of the Enjoy- 
ment, Disposition and Conservation 
Thereof 

GENERAL CONTROL AND REGULATION 

29.01 General definitions: 

(1) Wild animal. 

(2) Carcass. 

(3) Game; game fish; rough fish. 

(4) Waters classified. 

(5) Hunting. 

29.02 Title to wild animala. 

29.03 Public nuisances. 

29.04 Abandoned dams. 

29.05 Police powers: searches; seizures. 

( 1 ) Arrests. 

(2) Investigations. 

(3) Search warrants. 

(4) Opening packages. 

(6) Access to storage places. 

(6) Seizure and confiscation of game. 

or game fish. 

(7) Seizure and confiscation of property. 

(8) Entire shipment affected. 

(9) Exemption from liability. 



29.06 


Sales of confiscated game and apparatus. 


29.07 


Assistance of police officers. 


29.08 


Interstate comity. 




GA.ME LICENSES 


29.09 


General provisions. 




(1) License requisite. 




(2) Form of application. 




* ( 3 ) Form of license. 




(4) Duplicates. 




(5) Supply of blanks. 




(6) Licenses iamied by coonty derlu. 




(7) Return of fees by county clerks. 




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18 State Consektation Commissiow. 

29.10 Resident hunting- licenses, 

29.11 Settlers' hunWng licenses. 

29.12 Nonresident hunting license*. 

29.13 Trapping licenses. 

29.14 Hook and line fishing licenses. 

29.15 Otiier licenses. 

29.16 Interstate license privileges. 

29.17 Certificates to scientists. 

CLOSE SEASONS 

29.18 Close seasons for wild mammals and birds. 

29.19 Close seasons for hook and line fishing, 

29.19 5 Close season in Rush lake. 

29.20 Close seasons for crawfish and frogs. 

CONSERVATION COMMISSION 
2 9.21 Powers of commission. 

METHODS OP HUNTING AND ITISHINO 

29.22 General restrictions on hunting. 

(1) Prohibited methods. 

(2) Possession of ferrets. 

(3) Guide licenses. 

(4) Guides as special deputies. 

29.23 Deer hunting. 

(1) Prohibited methods. 

(2) Dogs in camp. 

29.24 Fur-bearing animals; methods of taking. 
•29.25 Game birds; hunting. 

(1) Prohibited methods. 

(2) Open water defined. 

(3) Live decoys. 

(4) Use of dogs. 

39.26 Prohibited fishing under particular condi- 
tions. 
29.37 Prohibited methods of fishing. 

(1) Hook and line fishing: spearing 

(2) Snag lines. 

29.28 Ice fishing. 

29.29 Noxious substances. 

(1) Explosives: stupef active*. 

(2) Medicated bait. 

(3) Deleterious substances. 



Statutes Relatlno to Wild Ajomalb. 19 

FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 

29.30 Fishing with nets and set lines. 

(1) License required. 

(2) Restrictions on use of nets. 

29.31 Dip nets in inland waters. 

29.32 Minnow nets. 

(1) Use limited. 

(2) Inland waters. 

(3) Outlying- waters. 

29.33 Net and set hook fishing in outlying waters. 

(1) License authorized. 

(2) Form of license. 

(3) License period and fees. 

(4) Metal tags. 

(5) Reserve waters. 

(6) Close seasons. 

(7) Prohibited nets. 

(8) Bass, muskellunge and sturgeon. 

(9) Undersize fish. 

(10) Possession, sale, and transportation. 

(11) Penalty. 

(12) Reports. 

29.34 Net licenses; Mississippi river waters. 

(1) License authorized. 

(2) Bond. 

(3) License period; nets specified. 

(4) License fees. 

(5) Metal tags. 

) (6) Protected fish. 

(7) Reserve waters. 

(8) Temporary ponds; shipments. 

(9) Reports. 

29.35 Net licenses; whitefish and Cisco in Inland 

lakes. 

29.36 Net licenses; rough fish in Winnebago waters. 

29.37 Set line licenses; inland waters. 



CLAMMING 

29.38 Clamming licenses. 

POSSESSION OF GAME 

29.39 Possession during close season, or in excess 

of bag limits. 



20 StATI COJNSKBTATXOir COMlCUiUCni. 

29.40 Possession of deer. 

(1) Deer tags. 

(2) Home consumption. 

(3) Heads and skins. 

29.41 Skins of fur-bearing animals. 
2 9.42 Possession of game birds. 

(1) Without license. ^ 

(2) Nests and eggs. " 



TRANSPORTATION OP GAME 

2 9.43 Transportation; general provisions. 

(1) During close season. 

(2) Trunks, valises. 

(3) Transportation employes. 

(4) Labeling game shipments. 

29.44 Interstate transportation. 

29.45 Transportation of deer. 

29.46 Transportation of game birds. 

29.47 Transportation of fish. 

(1) Time limitation. 

(2) From inland waters. 

(3) From outlying waters. 

(4) Shipments from inland points. 

(5) Foreign shipments. 

(6) Injurious fish minnows. 



COMMERCE IN GAME 

guests. 



29.48 


Sale of game. 


29.49 


Serving of game to 




(1) Prohibited. 




(2) Free lunch 




(3) Penalty. 



PROPAGATION OF WILD ANIMALS 

29.50 Propagation privileged. 

29.51 State propagation of fish. 

(1) State fish hatcheries. 

(2) Transplantation of fish 

(3) Delivery of spawn. 

(4) Removal of spawn or fish from state. 

(5) Unlawful fishing by employes. 
2 9.62 Private fish hatcheries. 



29.14 Stat« propar&tion ot wild mammato aad 

birds. 

29.55 Wild animals for parks. 

29.56 Forest county gsijoae refuge 

29.57 Wild life refuges. 

(1) Establishment. 

(2) Enclosure. 

(3) Publication. 

(4) Absolute protection. 

(5) Aniraals procured by the commission. 

DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMALS 

29.58 Muskrats injuring dams. 

29.59 Beaver causing- damage. 

(1) Complaint. 

(2) Supervision. 

(3) Disposition of animals. 

(4) Sale and disposition of proceeds. 

(5) In Price, Rusk and Sawyer counties. 

(6) Penalty. 
29.595 Deer causing damage. 

29.60 Bounties on wolves and fox. 

(1) Rate of bounty. 

(2) Presentation of claim. 

(3) Examination of carcass. 

(4) Payment by county and state. 

(5) Poisoned baits for wolves, wildcats 

and lynxes. 

29.61 Destruction of other injurious animals; re- 

wards. 

29.62 Removal of injurious rough fish. 

PENALTIES 

29.63 General penalty provisions. 

(1) Penalties. 

(2) "Person" defined. 

(3) Revocation of license. 

(4) Construction of penalty provisions. 

(5) Presumptions. 

(6) Reward to iaformera. 



GENERAIi CONTROL AND REGITLATION 

29.01 General Definitions. The following terms, 
wherever used in this chapter, shall be construed 
to apply as follows: 

(1) Wild animal. "Wild animal" means any 
mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild na- 
ture endowed with sensation and the power of vol- 
untary motion. 

(2) Carcass. "Carcass" means the dead body 
of any wild animal to which it refers, including 
the head, hair, skin, plumage, skeleton, or any 
other part thereof. 

(3) Game; game fish; rough fish. "Game** 
includes all varieties of mammals or birds for 
which, at any time of the year anywhere within 
the state, a close season is prescribed in or pur- 
suant to this chapter; "game fish" includes all va- 
rieties of fish except rough fish; and, until the state 
conservation commission otherwise determines 
"rough fish" includes chubs, dace, suckers, carp, 
red horse, sheephead, eelpout, dogfish, garfish, buf- 
falo fish, and lawyers, in all waters, and pickerel 
in lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Poygan, Big 
Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, and In the 
Fox river in Winnebago county. 

(4) Waters classified. All waters within the 
jnrisdiction of the state are classified as follows: 
Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan and the harbors 
and bays immediately connected therewith, Green 
Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and the Fox 
river from ita mouth up to the dam at De Pere are 
"outlying watenu** All other waters are "inland 



M STAn COKSSCTATIOF COMICUBSIMI. 

(S) Hunting. "Hunt" or "hunting" includes 
skooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching, 
or killing of any wild animal or animals. 

29.02 TiUe to Wild Animals. (1) The legal 
title to, and the custody and protection of, all wild 
animals within this state is vested in the state for 
the purposes of regulating the enjoyment, use, dis- 
position, and conservation thereof. 

(2) The legal title to any such wild animal, 
or carcass or part thereof, taken or reduced to pos- 
session in violation of this chapter, remains in the 
state; and the title to any such wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof, lawfully acquired, is sub- 
ject to the condition that upon the violation of 
any of the provisions of this chapter relating to the 
possession, use, giving, sale, barter, or transporta- 
tion of such wild animal, .or carcass or part thereof, 
by the holder of such title, the same shall revert, 
ipso facto, to the state. In either case, any such 
wild animal, or carcass or part tk^-^of, may be 
seized forthwith, wherever found, by the state con- 
servation commission or its deputies. 

29.03 Public Nuisances. The following are de- 
clared public nuisances: 

(1) Any unlicensed net of any kind, or other 
unlicensed device, trap, or contrivance for fishing; 
or any licensed net or other device, trap or con- 
trivance for fishing set, placed, or found in any 
waters where the same is prohibited to be used, or 
in a manner prohibited by law. 

(2) Any unlicensed set line, cable, rope, or 
line, with more than one fish line attached thereto; 
or any licensed set line set, placed, or found in any 
waters where the same is prohibited to be used, or 
hi a »a»Aor yroklkitod by Iaw; or aay tsk U»o loft 



Statutes Relating to Wild AmMAua. 25 

in the water unattended, whether hayins one or 
more hooks attached. 

, (3) Any screen set in public waters to prevent 
the free passage of fish, or set in any stream which 
has been stocked by state authorities. 

(4) Any building, enclosure, structure, or shel- 
ter placed, occupied, or used on the ice of any wa- 
ters in violation of this chapter. 

C5) Any unlicensed trap, snare, spring gun, set 
gun, net or other device or contrivance which might 
entrap, ensnare, or kill game. 

(6) Any boat, together with its machinery,, 
sails, tackle and equipment, or any lamp, light, 
pivot gun, swivel gun, or other firearm used in 
violation of this chapter; or any boat, floating raft, 
box, or blind set in open water and used in hunting 
game birds. 

(7) Any decoys set in any water during the 
close season for water-fowl, or in excess of the 
number authorized to be used, or more than two 
hundred feet from the weeds, rushes, or other veg- 
etation in which the hunter is concealed; and any 
decoys left in the water unattended. 

(8) Any dog found running deer at any time, 
or used in violation of this chapter. 

(9) Any ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea-pig in 
possession or used while hunting. 

29.04 (1) Abandoned Dams. The state con- 
servation commission may remove or cause to be 
removed, in such manner as they may deem fit, old 
and abandoned dams in streams in the state of Wis- 
consin, upon giving sixty days' notice in writing to 
the owner thereof, if he can be found. If the 
owner of such dam be unknown or cannot, by due 
diligence, be found, the commission shall fublish 
notice once eaQh week for four successire ireek& 



26 State Conservation Commission. 

in some newspaper published in the county in which 
such dam is situated. 

(2) Whenever the conservation commission, 
shall determine that the conservation of any species 
or variety of wild animals will be promoted there- 
by, the commission is authorized to maintain and 
repair any dam located wholly upon lands the title 
to which is in the state either as proprietor or in 
trust for the people; subject, however, t© the 
powers of the railroad commission to fix the level 
an'd regulate th« flow of the public waters. 

99.05 P©lic© Powers; Searches; Seizures. (1) 

Arrests. The state conservation commission and 
Its deputieii are hereby authorized to execute and 
serve all warrants and processes issued by any jus- 
tice of the peace or police magistrate or by any 
eotirt having jurisdiction uHder any law relating 
to wild animals, in the same manner as any con- 
ifUible may serve and execute such process; and to 
arrest, with or without a warrant, any person de- 
tected in the actual violation, or whom such officer 
has reasonable cause to believe guilty of the viola- 
tion of any of the provisions of this chapter, oMd 
to take such person before any court aad make 
proper complaint. 

(2) Investigations. Such officers shall, npoa 
receiving notice or information that any provision 
of this chapter has been violated, as soon as pos- 
sible make a thorough investigation tkereof, a&d 
cause proceedings to be InstitHted if the proofs at 
hand warrant it. 

(3) Search warrants. Upon complaint made to 
any magistrate who has authority to issue warrants 
in criminal cases, by any person that he knows or 
has good reason to believe that any wild animal, or 
carcass or part thereof, caught, taken, killed, or 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 27 

had in possession contrary to the provisions of this 
chapter, is concealed in any particular house or 
place, the magistrate shall examine such complain- 
ant on oath, reduce his complaint to writing, de- 
scribing as particularly as may be the place where 
said wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, is al- 
leged to be concealed, and cause the same to be 
subscribed by the person complaining. If it ap- 
pears to the magistrate that there is reasonable 
cause to believe that the facts alleged in said com- 
plaint are true he shall immediately issue his war- 
rant, reciting therein the substance of the com- 
plaint and the description of the premises described 
therein, and requiring the officer to whom it is di- 
rected to forthwith search such premises and seize 
any such wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
and bring the same when found, and the person in 
whose possession the same is found, before the 
magistrate who issued the warrant, or before some 
other magistrate or court having jurisdiction of the 
case. The officer executing such warrant shall state 
in his return, as particularly as may be, the prop- 
erty seized, which shall be safely kept under the di- 
rection of the court or magistrate so long as neces- 
sary for the purpose of being used as evidence on 
any trial; and if such trial results in a conviction, 
the property so seized shall be confiscated. 

(4) Opening packages. The state conserva- 
tion commission and its deputies may examine and 
open any packages in the possession of a common 
carrier which they suspect or have reason to be- 
lieve contains contraband wild animals, or car- 
casses or parts thereof, or te falsely labeled in vio- 
lation of the provisions of this chapter; and every 
such common carrier, and every agent, servant, or 
employe thereof, shall permit any such oflBcer to 
examine and open aay sueh package. Any package 



SO opened shall be restored to its original condi- 
tion. 

(5) Access to storage places. They shall be 
permitted by the owner or occupant of any cold 
storage warehouse or buildings used for the storage 
or retention of wild animals, or carcasses or parts 
thereof, to enter and examine said premises; and 
the said owner or occupant, or his agent, servant, 
or employe, shall deliver to any such officer any 
wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, in his pos- 
session during the close season therefor, whether 
taken within or without the state. 

(6) Seizure and confiscation of game, or game 
fish. They shall seize and confiscate in the name 
of the state any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, caught, killed, taken, had in possession or 
under control, sold or transported in violation of 
this chapter; and any such officer may, with or 
without warrant, open, enter and examine all build- 
ings, camps, vessels or boats in inland or outlying 
waters, wagons, automobiles or other vehicles, cars, 
stages, tents, suit-cases, valises, packages, and 
other receptacles and places where he has reason to 
believe that wild animals, taken or held in viola- 
tion of this chapter, are to be found; but no dwell- 
ing house or sealed railroad cars shall be searched 
for the above purposes without a warrant. 

(7) Seizure and confiscation of property. They 
shall seize and forthwith confiscate or destroy any 
apparatus, appliance, or device declared by any pro- 
vision of this chapter to be a public nuisance; and 
shall seize and hold subject to the order of the 
commission, any other apparatus, appliance, or any 
vehicle, or device, which they shall have reason to 
believe is being used in violation of this chapter, 
and if it be proven that the same is, or has been 
within six months previous to such seizure, used in 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 29 

violatioiL of this chapter the same shall be confis- 
cated. 

(S) Entire shipment affected. Confiscation of 
any part of a shipment under this section shall in- 
cIb^ the entire shipment. 

^(S) Exemption from liability. Each commis- 
sioner and each deputy conservation warden, in the 
performance of his official duties, shall be exempt 
from aay and all liability to any person for acrts 
dene or permitted or property destroyed by author- 
ity of law; and im any action brought against any 
such commissioner or warden personally, arising 
from alleged excess of his authority, the taxable 
costs awarded t© either party shall include a rea- 
8»»able attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court, pro- 
yided the party has appeared therein by an attor- 
ney of a court of record. 

29.06 Sales of Confiscated Gam© and Apparatus, 

(1) All confiscated wild animals, or carcasses or 
parts thereof, and all confiscated apparatus, appli- 
an(fes, or devices shall, if not destroyed as author- 
ized by law, be sold at the highest price obtainable, 
by the state conservation commission or its depu- 
ties, or by an agent on commission under the writ- 
ten authority and supervision of the state conser- 
vation commission or its deputies. The net pro- 
ceeds of such sales, after deducting the expense 
of seizure and sale and any such commissions, shall 
be promptly remitted by the warden by whom or 
under whose authority and supervision the sales 
are made, to the state conservation commission and 
by it paid into the state treasury; the remittance 
to be accompanied by a complete and certified re- 
port of such sales, supported by proper vouchers 
covering all deductions made for expenses and com- 



30 Statb Coi^sesvation Commission. 

missions, t» be filed for record in the office of the 
state conservation commission. 

(2) On any such sales of wild animals, or car- 
casses or parts thereof, the warden or agent selling 
them shall issue to each purchaser a certificate, on 
forms to b« prepared and furnished by the state 
conseryatlon commission, covering such sales. The 
animals, or carcasses or parts thereof, so purchase;; 
shall be consumed or otherwise disposed of by the 
purchaser within five days thereafter, but shall not 

^ resold, bartered, or exchanged, in whole or in 
part, to any other person, except as provided in 
suttsection (3). 

(3) Confiscated fish or game sold to the keeper, 
manager, or steward of any restaurant, club, hotel, 
or boarding house may be served to the guests 
thereof; bat in such case the certificate covering 
the purchase shall be hung in public view £c *tie 
place where the fish or game is served, and S'O^^ 
fish or game shall at the time of sale be tagged 
by the warden or agent selling it, such tag to show 
the date of BSkle and be returned to said warden 
or agent within five days thereafter. 

29.07 Assistance of Police Officers. All sher- 
iffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, and other police of- 
ficers are ex officio deputy conservation wardens, 
and shall assist the state conservation commission 
and its deputies in the enforcement of this chapter 
whenerer notice of a violation thereof is given to 
either of them by the commission or its deputies. 

29.98 Imterstate Comity. (1) Whenever and 
so long as any other state confers upon the officers 
of this stato reciprocal powers, any officer of such 
other state, who is by the laws of said state au- 
thorized or directed to enforce the laws of said 
state relating to the protection of wild animals, is 
hereby designated an agent of said state within 



Statutes Rexating to Wiid Animals. 31 

this state. It shall be lawful for said officer to fol- 
low any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof un- 
lawfully shipped or taken from his state into this 
state, seize and convey the same back to his own 
state; and so far as concerns any such wild animal, 
or carcass or part thereof, the laws of the state 
from which the same was brought into this state 
are hereby adopted as the laws of this state. Trans- 
portation companies shall deliver to such officer, 
upon submission of proper proof of his official ca- 
pacity, any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
so demanded or seized by him. , Said officer may 
dispose of any such wild animal, or carcass or 
part thereof, within this state, in accordance with 
the laws of the state from which the same was 
taken or shipped, under the supervision of any con- 
servation commissioner or deputy conservation war- 
den of this state, whose expenses for his assistance 
shall be a lien upon such wild animal or carcass 
or part thereof, or the proceeds thereof. 

(2) Except as provided in subsection (1), the 
state conservation commission or its deputies shall 
seize, hold and dispose, according to the laws of 
this state, of any wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, brought or shipped into or through this 
state, or attempted to be carried through this state, 
in violation of the laws of any other state. 

(3) The state game warden of every mher 
state, and his deputies and all other officers therein 
charged with the enforcement of the laws relating 
to wild animals are hereby designated agents of 
this state for the taking possession, seizing, holding 
and disposing, within such state, of any wild ani- 
mal, or carcass or part thereof, protected by the 
laws of this state. 



32 State Conskcvation Commission. 

(4) Whenever and so long as any other state 
confers upon the oflacers of this state reciprocal 
powers, the state conservation commission is here- 
by authorized to appoint persons who shall have 
been appointed game wardens or deputy game war- 
dens of such other state to act as and have »11 
the powers of deputy conservation wardens of tkia 
state, but without eempensatton from this state. 



KEEP THE FORESTS GREENI 



DONT BUILD BONFIRES! 



DID YOU PUT YOUR CAMP 
FIRE OUT? 



PREVENT FOREST FIRES4 



'34 •CAOI COJETSSETAHOH COMMISSION. 



GAME IJ[C£:NS£S 

29.^9 Geottral ProvisiojaL*. (1) Hunting, tra]^- 
ping or fishiiic without a license prohibited. Ex- 
cept as expressly provided, no person shall hunt, 
trap or fish any game or game fish unless a license 
therefor has been duly issued to him which shall 
be carried on his person at the time and shall be 
exhibited to the state conservation commission or 
its deputies on demand. Such licenses shall be is- 
sued only to persons, and not more than one of the 
same series to the same person in any year. No 
licensee shall transfer his license or deer tag to ©r 
permit the use thereof by any other person, nor 
shall any person while hunting, trapping or fishing 
use or carry any license, or guide's badge, issued to 
another. No hunting license shall be issued to any 
person who is less than fifteen years of age; nor 
to any person who is not a citizen of the United 
States, except as provided in section 29.11. In- 
dians hunting, fishing or trapping off Indian reser- 
vation lands are subject to all provisions of this 
chapter. 

(2) Form of application. The application for 
such license shall state the residence and post-office 
address of the applicant, a description of his per- 
son, and such other facts, showing him to be en- 
titled to the license for which he applies, as may 
be required by the commission, and shall be ver- 
ified by the affidavit of the applicant; but no writ- 
ten or verified application shall be required for any 
hook and line fishing license. Each such applica- 
tion shall be accompanied by the license fee pre- 
scribed for the license applied for. 

(3) Form of license. Each license shaU state 
for what year the same is issued and the date of ex- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 35 

jpiration, and except as otherwise provided shall be 
effective only from the first day of May until the 
next succeeding thirtieth day of April, subject to 
the conditions, limitations and restrictions pre- 
scribed in this chapter. Each license issued shall 
further state the name and residence of the li- 
censee, a description of his person, and such other 
matter as may be determined by the commission; 
shall bear upon its face a true signature of the 
licensee; and shall be signed by the officer who is- 
sues it. 

(4) duplicates. Whenever any such license i? 
lost the person to whom the same was issued may 
present to the commission an affidavit proving such 

,loss, together with a fee of fifty cents, whereupon 
'' the latter shall issue a duplicate license to such 
person. 

(5) Supply of blanks. The commission shall 
prepare, procure the printing of, and supply all 
necessary blanks for such licenses and applications. 
The licenses shall be numbered consecutively, at 
the time of printing, in a separate series for eacfe 
kfnd of license; and each license blank shall be 
provided with a corresponding stub numbered with 
the serial number of the license. Each requisition 
for the printing of such license blanks shall specify 
the serial numbers thereof. 

(6) Licenses issued by county clerk. Of each 
license issued by a county clerk he shall retain the 
stub for record in his office. He shall also keep 
an alphabetical index of the names of all persons 
to whom he issues licenses, such names to be en- 
tered therein at the time the licenses are issued. 
The State conserration commission or its deputies 
may at any time examine such records. 

(7) Return of fees by county clerk. Of the 
fees paid for such licenses the county clerk may 



31 Statb Conservation Commission. 

retain ten per cent as compensation for his serv- 
ices to the state; the remainder he shall return to 
the state conservation commission on the first day 
of each month, with a report of the number of li- 
censes issued by him during the preceding month 
and the amount of money thus remitted. All stubs 
of licenses issued and all unused license blanks 
shall be returned by the county clerk to the com- 
mission at the close of the year for which they are 
supplied. 

(8) Record of licenses issued. A complete rec- 
ord of all licenses issued shall be kept by the com- i 
mission, which shall also be accountable for all un- i 
used license blanks. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.10 Resident Hunting Licenses. Resident 
hunting licenses shall be issued subject to the pro- 
visions of section 29.09, by the county clerks of 
the several counties upon blanks supplied to them 
by the state conservation commission, to residents 
of each such county duly applying therefor who 
have resided in this state for at least one year next 
preceding the application. The fee for each such 
license is one dollar. Such license does not grant 
the privilege of hunting deer unless the licensee is 
in possession of a deer tag numbered to correspond 
with his license, which shall be issued to him by 
the state conservation commission on application 
and the payment of an additional fee of ten cents. 
The commission may cause such tags to be issued 
through agents, but no commission to be allowed 
for the sale of such tags. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 

29.11 Scrttflers' Hunting Licenses. Settlers' 
hunting licenses subject to the provisions of section 
29.09 may be issued by the state conservation com- 
mission in its discretion, to actual settlers in thii 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 37 

state duly applying therefor who have resided in 
this state less than one year next preceding the 
application. A bona fide settler shall be a person 
who has either purchased or rented, or has nego- 
tiations in progress to purchase or rent residence 
property in Wisconsin and who has moved to and 
settled in this state. Such licenses shall be in sub- 
stantially the same form, subject to the same con- 
ditions and restrictions, and entitle the holder to 
the same rights, privileges and immunities as a 
resident hunting license. No nonresident hunting 
license shall be issued in the same year to any per- 
son to whom a settlers' hunting license has been 
issued, and no settlers' hunting license to any 
holder of a nonresident hunting license. (Penalty 
$50-$100.) 

29.12 Nonresident Hunting L/icenses. (1) 

Nonresident hunting licenses shall be either general 
or limited, and shall be issued by the state conser- 
vation commission, subject to the provisions of sec- 
tion 29.09, to persons duly applying therefor who 
are not residents of this state or who have resided 
therein less than one year next preceding the appli- 
cation. The fee for each such general license is 
fifty dollars, and for each such limited license 
twenty-five dollars. 

(2) Each such general license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
season therefor, respectively, and shall be accom- 
panied by a deer tag, numbered to correspond with 
the license and to be supplied without additional 
fee, 

(3) Each such limited license shall extend to 
the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
season therefor, respectively, except deer. The 
holder of ftueh limited license may at any time be- 



38 State Conservation Commission. 

tore its expiration surrender the same for cancella- 
tion, and in lieu thereof, upon payment of an ad- 
ditional fee of twenty-five dollars, the commission 
shall issue to him a general license as prescribed 
in subsection (2). (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.13 Trai)ping Licenses. (1) Trapping 11- 
"Censes, which shall authorize the use of traps for 
trapping fishers, martens, minks, muskrats, rac- 
coons, and skunks, shall be issued by the state con- 
servation commission, subject to the provisions of 
section 29.09, to persons duly applying therefor who 
have resided in this state for at least one year next 
preceding the application. The fee for each such 
license is one dollar. 

(2) All shipments of hides must be marked 
showing the number and kinds of hides in the 
package, the name and address of the shipper, and 
the number of his trapping license. 

(3) On or before June first next after the ex- 
piration of his license, such licensee shall report to 
the state conservation commission, by affidavit, on 
blanks furnished by the commission, the number 
of his license, the number and value of each variety 
of animals taken, and such other information as 
may be required on the blanks furnished. (Pen- 
alty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.14 Hook and Line Fishing Licenses. (1) 

Any person, other than nonresident males over the 
age of sixteen years, may without a license take, 
catch or kill with hook and line fish of any variety, 
subject to all other conditions, limitations and re- 
strictions prescribed in this chapter. 

(2) Any male nonresident over the age of six- 
teen years shall have the rights of a resident to 
take, catch or kill fisTi of any variety with hook 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 39 

and line in outlying waters; but not in inland wa- 
ters unless a license has been duly issued to him, 
subject to the provisions of section 29.09 by the 
state conservation commission. Each such license 
shall be provided with three coupons each of which 
shall entitle the licensee to make one shipment of 
game fish as provided in section 29.47, but no more 
One coupon shall be attached to each shipment so 
made. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

The agent of any common carrier who shall ac- 
cept any such shipment without a coupon attached 
shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter and 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty- 
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. The fee 
for each such license is one dollar. Thp com mi p- 
sion may cause such licenses to be issued through 
agents for a compensation of ten per cent of the 
license fees collected therefor; but no such com- 
pensation shall be paid to any of its regular depu- 
ties or other employes. 

29.15 Other Licenses. Guiding licenses, net 
and set line licenses, and clamming licenses, shall 
be issued by the state conservation commission as 
provided in subsection (3) of section 29.22 and sec- 
tions 29.33, 29.34, 29.35, 29.36, 29.37 and 29.38, 
respectirely. 

29.16 Interstate License Privileges. Whenever 
and so long as the states of Minnesota or Iowa 
confer upon the licensees of this state reciprocal 
rights, privileges and immunities, any hook and 
line or other fishing license, or clamming license 
issued by such other state shall entitle the licensee 
to all the rights, privileges and immunities, in ana 
upon the boundary waters between such state and 
this state, enjoyed by the nolders of equivalent li- 



40 State Conservation Commission. 

censes issued by this state; subject, however, to 
the duties, responsibilities and liabilities imposed 
on its own licensees by the laws of this state. 

29.17 Certificates to Scientists. (1) The state 
conservation commission may grant, on satisfac- 
tory testimonials of well-known scientists only, a 
certificate to any member of an incorporated so- 
ciety of natural history, or to any professor of any 
university, school or college, or to any person 
properly accredited by any such institution, or to 
any custodian of a public museum, authorizing such 
person or institution to collect for scientific pur- 
poses only, any nests, eggs, or wild animals, ex- 
cept deer. Such specimens may be transported by 
any common carrier; but no person to whom such 
cetificate is issued shall dispose of any such speci- 
men except in exchange for scientific purposes. All 
such certificates shall expire on the first day of Jan- 
uary following the date of their issue, and shall 
not be transferable. 

(2) The application for such certificate shall 
be made upon blanks to be furnished by the state 
conservation commission, shall be accompanied by 
a fee of two dollars, and the applicant shall exe- 
cute and deliver to the state conservation commis- 
sion a bond running to the state of Wisconsin, in 
the sum of one hundred dollars, with two sureties, 
and conditioned that if the applicant shall well 
and faithfully observe and comply with all the re- 
quirements of this section, and the certificate issued 
thereunder, said obligation to be null and void, 
otherwise to remain in full force. Each said surety 
shall be worth and qualify in at least the sum of 
one hundred dollars, over and above all his debts 
nnd liabilities, in property within this state not ex- 
empt from sale on execution. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 41 

(3) The certificate of any person convicted of 
a violation of this section shall be forfeited and re- 
voked, and such convicted person shall not be en- 
titled to another certificate for the period of one 
year from and after the date of such conviction. 

CLOSE SEASONS 

29.18 Close Seasons for Wild Manunals and 
Birds. A close season is established for each va- 
riety of wild animals and birds listed in the fol- 
lowing table, extending during all the time in each 
year except the period embraced within the dates, 
both inclusive, set opposite the name of each va- 
riety or each locality, respectively, in the column 
headed "Open Season*^'; and, except as expressly 
provided in this chapter, no persons shall hunt or 
trap any such wild mammal or bird at any time 
other than the open season therefor, nor in the 
open season in excess of the number designated 
opposite each variety or each locality, respectively, 
in the column headed "Bag Limit," nor wild birds 
of more than one variety except a mixed bag limit 
of twenty each day in the open season, but con- 
taining not more than the bag limit of any one 
variety. Wild ducks and American coots or mud- 
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INLAND WATERS 

2d. 19 Close Seasons for Hook and Line Fishing. 

A close season is established for each variety of 
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There shall be no close season for hook and line 
fishing, except for large and small mouthed black 
bass, sturgeon and trout, in any of the following 
described waters: In the waters of Juneau, Lafay- 
ette, and Green counties, except in the Wisconsin 
river between Juneau and Adams in the waters of 
lakes Winnebago in Fond du Lac, Calumet and 
Winnebago counties, in Buffalo lake, Marquette 
county, in Puckaway lake iti Marquette and Green 
Lake counties, in Lake Poygan in Winnebago and 
Waushara counties in lakes Winneconne, Big and 
Little Butte des Morts in Winnebago county, in the 
Pox river in Marquette, Green Lake, Waushara and ■ 
Winnebago counties, in the Wolf river in Winne- 
bago county and in Waupaca county as far as the 
city limits of New London, in the Rock and Craw- 
fish rivers and Lake Koshkonong in Rock, Jefferson 
and Dodge counties. During the period from March 
1 to May 28, both dates inclusive, live or dead min- 
nows shall not be used for bait in any of the above 
waters specified in Jefferson county. The open 
season for hook and line fishing in the waters of 
the Mississippi river, except for large and small 
r^TOuthed black bass, shall open on May 1. 

29.195 There shall be no closed season except 
from the first day of March to the succeeding twen- 
tieth day of May for any fish, except trout, in Rush 
lake or in the streams flowing into said lake, situate 
in Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties, and fish 
therein may be taken in any manner, except with 
explosives, during the open season, except trout; 
provided, that no person shall have more than fifty 
pounds of such fish, taken from said Rush lake or 
said streams flowing into said lake, in his posses- 
sion or under his control in any one day. 

29.20 Close Season for Cra^^'f^sh and Frogs. 
No person shall take, catch, or kill, in any waters 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 49 

of this state, or have in possession, any crawfish 
or crab of any variety between the first day of 
March and the next succeeding first day of July; 
or any frog from March 1 to May 1 of each year; 
but nothing in this section shall prevent any per- 
son from having frogs in his possession who is in 
the business of propagating frogs, or where the 
same are used for scientific or educational purposes. 
(Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

CONSERVATION CO>OIISSIO.N 

29.21 Powers of Commission. (1) The state 
conservation commission shall have power to issue 
orders determining in v/hat manner, in what num- 
bers, in what places and at what times the taking, 
catching, or killing of wild animals shall be incon- 
sistent with the proper protection, propagation and 
conservation of fish, birds or mammals protected 
by law in this state, and the perpetuation of wild 
life. No such order providing protection or ad- 
ditional protection to any such wild animals shall 
be issued except upon petition filed with said com- 
missioners, and after hearing thereon as herein- 
after provided. 

(2) Ten or more persons of any township or 
twenty-five or more persons of any county, may file 
with the state conservation commission a petition 
signed with their names and addresses, requesting 
the granting of protection or additional protection 
within such county, to one or more species of wild 
animals designated in said petition. And such peti- 
tion shall state the extent such protection or ad- 
ditional protection is desired and the grounds there- 
for. If after hearing the petitioners, the conserva- 
tion commission shall determine to entertain the 
petition it shall order a public hearing to be held 
thereon within the town or county described in the 
petition, within twenty days from the filing of said 



60 State Conservation Commission. 

petition. At least ten days prior to such public 
hearing notice thereof containing a brief statement 
of the grounds upon which application is made 
therefor^ and the time and place of hearing shall 
be published in a newspaper having a general cir- 
culation in the district to be affected, and a copy 
of such notice shall be mailed to each petitioner, at 
the address given in the petition. 

(3) If upon such hearing the conservation com- 
mission find and determine that the protection or 
additional protection requested, is necessary for 
the proper protection, propagation and conserva- 
tion of the designated wild animals within the des- 
ignated territory, the commission shall issue an or- 
der prohibiting or regulating during the open sea- 
son therefor, the taking of any or all species of 
jSsh, birds or mammals within such territory. At 
least thirty days before the date fixed for such or- 
der to take effect, copies of the same should be 
iled in the office of the clerk for each county con- 
taining a district or any part of a district in which 
such order or regulation shall apply, and cause 
the same to be published in a newspaper having 
general circulation in the town, county or district 
in which such regulations shall apply, or to cause 
the same to be published by means of at least five 
large notices posted in or near public buildings or 
on the highways within said territory, and when 
the territory affected is less than a township in 
area, in conspicuous places on the boundaries 
thereof. 

(4) Any order issued by the state conservation 
commission pursuant to this section shall have the 
force of law, and the penalties prescribed for viola- 
tions of the provisions of this chapter shall follow 
and be applicable to violations of any such order, 
to the same effect and extent, respectively, as 
though such order had been enacted a part of this 
chanter. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 61 



METHODS OF HUNTING AND PISHING 

29.22 General Bestrictions on Hunting. (1) 

Prohibited methods. No person shall hunt game 
with any means other than the use of a ffun held at 
arm's length and discharged from the shoulder; 
or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, snare, spring 
gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar con- 
trivance for the purpose of catching, or which might 
catch, take or ensnare game; or use or have in his 
possession or under his control any ferret, rat, 
weasel, or guinea pig while hunting; and no per- 
son shall carry with him in any vehicle, any gun 
or rifle unless the same is unloaded, an-d knocked 
down or enclosed within a carrying case. No per- 
son while hunting or in possession of firearms shall 
have in possession or under control any light used 
for the purpose of shining deer. 

(2) Possession of ferrets. No person shall 
have In his possession or under his control at any 
time any ferret unless a permit therefor has been 
issued to him by the state conservation commis- 
sion; but such permit shall not authorise the use 
of any ferret for hunting game except in Door 
county. 

(3) Guide licenses. No person shall engage, 
or be employed, for any compensation or reward, 
to guide, direct, or assist any other person in hunt- 
ing, trapping, or fishing unless a license therefor, 
subject to the provisions of section 29.09, has been 
duly issued to him by the state conservation com- 
mission. The fee for each such license is one dol- 
lar. The applicant shall deliver to the state con- 
servation commission a bond running to the state 
of Wisconsin, in the sum of. two hundred dollars, 
with two sureties, and conditioned that if the ap- 



52 State Conservation Commission. 

plicant shall well and faithfully observe and com- 
ply with all the requirements of this chapter, and 
the guide license issued thereunder, said obligation 
shall be null and void, otherwise to remain in full 
force. But this subsection does not apply to the 
employment of labor by, or services rendered to, 
the licensee of any net fishing license. (Penalty 
$50.00-$100.00.) 

(4) Guides as special deputies. Each licensed 
guid'3 may be a special deputy conservation warden, 
appointed by the commission and shall execute the 
same oath of office and bond as required by regu- 
larly salaried wardens. Licensed guides may be 
employed for temporary service as a regular deputy 
conservation warden, for any period not exceeding 
fifty days in any one year, at a compensation to be 
fixed by the commission. 

29.23 Deer Hunting. (1) Prohibited meth- 
ods. No person shall hunt deer between one hour 
after sunset and one hour before sunrise, of the 
following morning; or in the water or on the ice 
of any stream, lake, or pond; or with a dog or 
dogs; or v/ith the aid of artificial light; nor place 
any salt in any place for the purpose of enticing 
deer thereto, or construct, occupy, or use any ele- 
vated scaffold or other device for the purpose of 
hunting, watching for, or killing deer. 

(2) Dogs in camps. During the period from 
November 10 to December 10, in the couTit'e'^- wher*^ 
there is an open season for deer, no person shall 
hunt any wild animal with a dog or dogs; nor have 
a dog or dogs in his possession or under his con- 
trol in or about a hunting or logging camp, unless 
a permit therefor has been issued to him by the 
state conservation commission. (Penalty $5 0.00- 
$100.00.) 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 53 

29.24 Fur-Bearing Animals; Methods of Tak- 
ing. (1) No person shall hunt any fisher, mar- 
ten, mink, or muskrat with the aid of any spear, 
gun, or dog, disturb or molest any raccoon den or 
tree for the purpose of capturing the raccoons, or 
any muskrat house, beaver house or beaver dam; 
or set any trap or traps at any time within five 
hundred feet of any beaver house or beaver dam. 

(2) The owner or occupant of any land, and 
any member of his family may without license hunt 
thereon rabbits at any time, and squirrels during 
the open season therefor. 

(3) Except as provided in subsection (2), no 
person shall have in his possession or under liis 
control, or use, for hunting rabbits, any ferret, 
snare, trap, or any device or contrivance designed 
or used for the purpose of driving rabbits out of 
their holes or dens. The owner or occupant or 
any person upon written request of the owner or 
occupant of any land in the county of Door may 
use a ferret thereon for hiinting rabbits. (Penalty 
$50.00-$100.00.) 

29.25 Game Birds; Hunting. (1) Prohibited 
methods. No person shall hunt any game bird 
between sunset and thirty minutes before sunrise 
of the following morning; or by shooting it or at 
it from any boat, canoe, raft, blind, contrivance or 
device in open water, or from any boat or craft 
other than such as are propelled by paddle, oars, 
or pole or with the use of more than fifty decoys 
within, or any decoys beyond, two hundred feet 
from the blind or covering in which the hunter is 
located, or with any decoys left in the water unat- 
tended; or any game bird other than wild geese 
and brant with the use of a rifle. 

(2) Open water defined. Open water is any 



54 Statb Conshbvation Commission. 

water outside or beyond a natural growth of veg- 
etation extending over the water surface, and of 
such height as to offer partial or whole conceal- 
ment for the hunter. 

(3) Live decoys. The set of twenty-five de- 
coys allowed for each hunter used on the water in 
hunting game birds may include not more than 
five live decoys; but each such live decoy so used 
shall be provided with a registration tag, which 
shall be issued by the state conservation commis- 
sion to any holder of a hunting license on payment 
of a fee of ten cents for each tag. 

(4) Use of dogs. No person carrying or be- 
ing in possession of a gun shall run or use a dog 
or dogs in the field, or upon lands frequented by 
game birds or upon which game birds may be found, 
between the first day of August and the seventh 
day of September in each year. (Penalty $50.00 — 

noo.eo.) 

29.26 Prohibited Fishing Under Particular Con- 
ditions. No person shall take, capture, or kill fish 
of any variety, during the close season for trout, 
in streams and creeks containing trout; or at any 
time in or from any spring hole or artificial well 
connected with any of the waters of this state; or 
l>y means of shutting or drawing off water for that 
purpose; nor shall any person take, capture or kill 
fish within two hundred feet of any fishway, lock 
or dam otherwise than with a hook and line. No 
fish of any variety shall be taken in any manner 
within five hundred feet below any fishway, lock 
or dam in the counties of Burnett, Washburn, Saw- 
yer, Oneida, Florence, Vilas, Iron, Ashland, Bay- 
field, Douglas, and north of townships number 35 
in Price and Forest counties, and within three hun- 
dred feet above and five hundred feet below the 
dam at Kilbourn on the Wisconsin river. No per- 



St-^utes Relating to Wild Animals. 55 

son shall take or catch fish from a boat or float 
in Elites pond on the Big Rush O'Cree creek in the 
town of Plainfield, Waushara county. (Penalty 
$50.00-$lG0.00.) 

29.27 Prohibited Methods of Fishing. (1) 

Hook and line fishing; spearing. No person shall 
take, catch, kill, or fish for fish of any variety with 
more than three lines, or with any line equipped 
with more than two hooks or one trolling spoon or 
artificial bait, or with more than such number of 
lines and hooks left in the water unattended, un- 
less a license for a set line shall be procured there- 
for; or any game fish by any means other than 
angling or trolling, except as provided in subsec- 
tion (2) of section 29.28 and section 29.30; nor 
shall any person use a spear for the purpose of 
taking, catching or killing any rough fish at any 
time in nonnavigable waters containing trout, or 
during the close season for trout in navigable wa- 
ters containing trout, or at any time in Lake Ma- 
son, commonly known as Briggsville pond, or the 
inlet, outlet or marshes adjacent to the same, or In 
Pine lake, in the town of tiancock, and Fish lake, 
in the towns of Hancock and Deerfield, Waushara 
county, or in the Chain of Lakes, Mirror or Shadow 
lakes, in the towns of Farmington, Dayton, Wau- 
paca, and the city of Waupaca, Waupaca county, 
or in Devil's lake, Sauk county, or in the waters 
known as Koenig's millpond, situated in sections 
seven, eight, seventeen and eighteen of tovv^nship 
nine north, of range six east, town of Prairie du 
Sac, or in the nighttime in any other inland waters. 
(Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(2) Snag lines. No person shall set, place, 
use, have, or control any snag line or snag pole, 
meaning any line, cable, or pole to which a number 



56 State Conservation Commission. 

or fishhooks or clusters of fishhooks of any kind 
or description are attached, and designated to be 
placed in or drawn through the water for the pur- 
pose of catcTiing or drawing such hooks into the 
body of fish. Violations of this subsection shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred 
nor more than two hundred dollars, or by impris- 
onment in the county jail not less than six months 
nor more than nine months, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment. 

29.28 Ice Fishing. (1) No person shall take, 
catch, or kill fish of any variety through the ice on 
Silver lake, situated within the city limits of Port- 
age, Columbia county; Pine lake, town of Han- 
cock, and Pish lake, towns of Hancock and Deer- 
field, and the millpond in the village of Wautoma, 
Waushara county; Lake Nocquebay in Marinette 
county; Lake Mason, commonly known as Briggs- 
ville pond, in the counties of Adams and Marquette; 
Shell lake, Washburn county; Chain of Lakes in 
townships thirty-seven and thirty-eight north, of 
range twelve west, in Washburn county; Spring 
lake and the upper mill lake in the village and 
town bl Palmyra, Jefferson county; Big Slough in 
Lewiston, Columbia county; Devil's lake and Hears 
lake and tributary streams; the waters known as 
Koenig's millpond, in sections seven, eight, seven- 
teen and eighteen of township nine north, of range 
six east, town of Prairie du Sac, and Mirror lake, in 
Sauk county; Twin lakes, in the town of Lincoln, 
Pol^ county; any lake in the counties of Langlade, 
Portage, Marquette, except in Buffalo lake, and 
Shawano. The bag limit for cisco in any lake in 
Waukesha county shall be twenty-five each day, 
except in Pine lake where there shall be no bag 
limit. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

(2) Speats may be used for spearing pickerel 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 67 

through the ice of the Mississippi river. Lake Pepin, 
Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous and 
sloughs tributary thereto and connected therewith. 

(3) Fish shanties or shelters may be used on 
the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake Geneva in Wal- 
worth county, Lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Big 
and Little Butte des Morts and Poygan; Beaver 
Dam lake; the Fox river in Brown county; the 
Oconto river within the limits of the city of Oconto; 
all lakes in Waukesha county, except Phantom 
and Hewitt's lakes; and where there is not less 
than fifty feet of water in Big Green lake. Wind 
shields may be used on the ice of Mendota, Mo- 
nona, Waubesa and Kegonsa lakes in Dane county. 

29.29 Noxious Substances. (1) Explosives; 
stupefactives. No person shall take, capture or kill 
fish of any variety in any waters of this state by 
means of dynamite or other explosives or poisonous 
or stupefying substances; or place in any waters 
of this state explosives which might cause the de- 
struction of fish, except for the purpose of raising 
dead bodies whenever ordered by the public au- 
thorities, or for the purpose of clearing a channel 
or breaking a log jam; or have in his possession 
or under his control, upon any inland waters, any 
dynamite or other explosives for the purpose of 
taking, catching or killing fish. Violations of this 
subsection shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than two hundred nor more than five hundred dol- 
lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than nine months nor more than one year, or •by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 

(2) Medicated bait. No person shall use, set, 
lay or prepare in any of the waters of this state 
any lime, poison, medicated bait, fish berries, or 
any other substance deleterious to fish life or 
which might attract fish in unusual numbers; but 



58 State Conservation Commissiow. 

the feeding of cisco with oatmeal for the purpose 
of catching such fish with hook and line through 
the ice is lawful. 

(3) Deleterious substances. No person shall 
cast, deposit, or throw overboard from any boat, 
vessel or other craft into any waters within the 
jurisdiction of the state, or deposit or leave upon 
the ice thereof until it melts, any fish offal; or 
throw or deposit, or permit to be thrown or de- 
posited, into any waters within the jurisdiction of 
the state any lime, tanbark, ship ballast, stone, 
sand slabs, decayed wood, sawdust, sawmill ref- 
use, planing mill shavings, or any acids, or chem- 
icals or waste or refuse arising from the manu- 
facture of any article of commerce, or any other 
substance deleterious to fish life other than auth- 
orized drainage and sewage from municipalities. 
(Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 



ONE TREE 



Will Make a Million Matches 



ONE MATCH 



Will Destroy a Million Trees 



60 State Consibvation Commission. 



FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 

29.30 Fishing with Nets and Set Lines. (1) 

License required. Nets and set lines may be used 
for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing 
rough fish and game fish, subject to the conditions, 
limitations and restrictions prescribed in this chap- 
ter; but no person shall set, place or use in any wa- 
ters of this state any net, trap, snare, set hook, or 
set line, which is intended to or might take, catch 
or kill fish of any variety, other than a landing 
net, dip net, minnow seine or minnow dip net, 
unless a license therefor has been duly issued 
to such person. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00. Pen- 
alty use of gill nets $200.00 — $500.00. Penalty 
use of any net for trout $200.00 — $500.00.) 

(2) Restrictions on the use of licensed nets 
and set lines. The use of licensed nets and set 
lines is subject, further, to the following condi- 
tions: 

(a) No apron or other device shall be used 
in any pound net, which might prevent the escape 
of small fish through the meshes of the net when 
it is set or raised. 

(b) No net of any kind shall be set so as to 
shut off more than one-half of any channel or 
passageway of any stream, or set within one 
thousand feet of any other net in said stream. 

(c) No licensee shall join his net to that of any 
other licensee. 

(d) At each end of every licensed net or set 
line, when set in any waters, shall be placed and 
maintained a white flag of not less than sixteen 
inches square, with the upper end of the staff ex- 
tending at least two feet above the water, and 
numbered with figures at least three inches in 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 61 

height corresponding with the number of the 
license authorizing the use of such net or set line. 

(e) The licensees of licensed nets or set lines 
used in outlying waters shall, on their boats, 
carry the state conservation commission, or its 
deputies, to and from their nets or set lines when 
set and, on demand of such officer, shall raise the 
same for his inspection; and any such officer is 
authorized, in the presence or absence of. the li- 
censee, at any time, to raise any set line in any 
waters, with as little damage as may be, for in- 
spection. If any such licensee shall refuse to 
carry any such officer as herein provided his li- 
cense shall be revoked and cancelled. 

(f) No license net shall be drawn or lifted 
at any time between one hour after sunset and 
sunrise of the following morning, in any waters 
other than Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green 
Bay, the Fox River beyond a distance of 500 
feet below the dam at De Pere, and Sturgeon Bay. 

(g) No fish of any kind shall be taken or re- 
tained in any net, when drawn or lifted, other 
than the kind or kinds expressly authorized to be 
taken or retained in such net, as provided in this 
chapter; and except as provided in paragraph (h) 
any such other kind or kinds of fish coming into 
or taken in such nets shall be immediately returned, 
carefully and with as little injury as possible, to 
the waters from which they were taken. 

(h) All rough fish taken in net in inland water 
shall be brought to shore and buried, sold, or oth- 
erwise lawfully disposed of; but none of such fish 
shall be returned to any waters of this state. 

(i) Whenever the size of mesh of any net is 
specified in this chapter it shall be the size of such 
mesh, stretch measure, at the time of its use. 
(Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 



62 State Consfrvation Commission. 

29.31 Dip Nets iii Inland Waters. (1) No per- 
son shall set, use or operate any dip net In any of 
the inland waters of the state for taking, catching 
or killing of any variety of fish other than as 
specified in this section, 

(2) Dip nets not exceeding eight feet in diam- 
eter with meshes of not less than three inches may 
be used for taking, catching or killing rough fish 
in the Fond du Lac river within three miles of 
its mouth; in Silver creek in the town of Ripon, 
Fond du Lac county, from the old Arcade dam to 
the Green Lake county line; in the Big Wolf river; 
in Butternut lake, Ashland and Price counties; 
in the Manitowoc river from its mouth up to Ripp's 
bridge in the town of Rockland, Manitowoc county, 
and in all the streams and rivers flowing into Lake 
Michigan in that part of such streams beginning 
at the mouth and extending ten miles inland. (Pen- 
alty $50.00 — $100.00.) 

29.32 Minnow Nets. (1) Use limited. No 
person shall set, use or operate any minnow seine 
or minnow dip net in any of the waters of this state 
for taking, catching or killing fish of any variety, 
other than as specified in this section. 

(2) iHland waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding forty feet in length and five feet in depth., 
and minnow dip nets not exceeding six feet in 
diameter may be used in all inland waters for 
taking, catching or killing rough fish minnows for 
bait only; but not in any such waters, creeks, or 
streams inhabited by trout or in which trout may 
have been planted, or in Turtle creek in Walworth 
and Rock counties, unless supervised by the state 
conservation commission or its deputies. 

(3) Outlying waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
ceeding one hundred feet in length and five feet 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 63 

in depth and minnow dip nets not exceeding six 
feet in diameter may be used in Lake Superior, 
Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and 
the Fox river below the dam at De Pere, for taking, 
catching, or killing rough fish minnows for bait 
only. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00) 

29.33 Net and Set Hook Fishing in Outlying 
Waters. (1) License authorized. Net or set 
hook licenses which shall authorize the use of one 
or more of the kinds of nets or lines of set hooks 
named in this section, as limited herein, for the 
taking, catching, or killing of fish in the waters of 
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Stur- 
geon Bay, and the Fox river below the dam at De 
Pere, shall be issued, subject to the provisions 
of section 29.09, by the state conservation com- 
mission to any person duly applying therefor. 

(2) Form of license. In addition to the facts 
required by section 29.09, each application for 
such license, and the license issued thereon, shali 
state the name and kind of vessel and whether 
with or without a steam lifter, and the number 
and kind of nets or set hooks to be covered by 
the license applied for. 

(3) License period and fees. Each such li- 
cense shall be effective only from the first day 
of January until the thirty-first day of December 
of the same year; and the fee for each license 
issued to any resident of this state is two dollars 
for a gill net or nets; five dollars for each seine; 
two dollars for each pound net and leader; five 
dollars for trap net or nets, fyke net or nets, drop 
net or nets, with leaders; and one dollar for each 
trammel net, or for set hooks. The fee for each 
license issued to any nonresident is the same as 
the resident fee, except for gill nets operated in 
conjunction with or from any vessel; and for gill 



64 State Conservation Commission. 

nets so operated, two dollars for any vessel pro- 
pelled by oars, paddle, or pole, fifty dollars for any 
other vessel propelled otherwise than by steam, 
one hundred dollars for any steam vessel without 
a steam lifter, and two hundred dollars for any 
steam vessel with a steam lifter. 

(4) Metal tags. No such licensed net or set 
hooks shall be used until the same are equipped 
with metal tags stamped to designate the kind of 
net or set hooks and number of the license cover- 
ing the same. One such tag shall be securely 
fastened to each two thousand lineal feet, or frac- 
tion thereof, of gill net or set hooks; one to each 
pound net; one to each five hundred lineal feet, 
or fraction thereof, of seine; and one to each fyke, 
drop, trap, submarine or trammel net. Such tags 
shall be furnished by the state conservation com- 
mission to the licensee at the time of issuing the 
license, on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents 
for each tag, except that tags for gill nets shall 
be fifty cents. 

(5) Reserve waters. The following waters are 
reserve waters, and no nets of any kind shall be 
set therein, namely: In Lake Superior within one- 
fourth mile from the entry of the channel between 
Wi^onsin Point and Minnesota Point, or from any 
harbor, pier or breakwater, or from the mouth of 
any stream flowing into Lake Superior, or from 
the shore line of Douglas county. In Lake Michi- 
gan and Green Bay within one-fourth mile of any 
harbor, pier or bre-akwater, or from the mouth of 
any stream flowing into Lake Michigan or Green 
Bay, or within one mile from any harbor, pier or 
breakwater in Milwaukee county, or within one 
mile from the shore line of Milwaukee county. 
In the waters of Lake Michigan or Green Bay no 
gill net Shall be set within one-fourth mile from 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 65 

the shore line of Door county and no net of any 
kind shall be used in the following bays or harbors 
in Door county, namely: Sturgeon Bay, Little 
Sturgeon Bay, Pish Creek Harbor, Eagle Harbor, 
Bailey's Harbor, Mud Bay, North Bay, Rowley's 
Bay, and Washington Harbor and Detroit Harbor 
in Washington Island. No gill net of less than 
four inches stretch measure shall be set in less than 
forty fathoms of water, except in Green Bay proper. 

(6) Close seasons. For the purpose of this 
subsection the waters of Green Bay shall be con- 
sidered to include all that area south of a line 
drawn between Limekiln Bluff in Door county and 
the mouth of the Menominee river in Marinette 
county, and including the Fox river as far as the 
dam at De Pere, and all the waters of Green Bay 
north of the above described line shall be subject 
to the law covering Lake Michigan, 

(a) In Green Bay there shall be a close 
season on lake trout and whitefish from October 
21 to November 21. A close season for pike and 
pickerel from March 10 to May 1. A close season 
for all varieties of fish, except lake trout and white- 
fish from the first day of April to the fifteenth day 
of May, inclusive. 

(b) In Lake Michigan there shall be a close 
season on Lake trout and whitefish from October 
21 to November 21. 

(c) In Lake Superior there shall be a close 
season for lake trout and whitefish from September 
15 to November 1. 

(7) Prohibited nets. Minnow net. For the 
purpose of this subsection the waters of Green 
Bay shall be considered to include all that area 
south of a line drawn between Limekiln Bluff 
in Door county and the mouth of the Menominee 
river in Marinette county and including the Fox 



66 State Cokseevation Commission. 

river as far as the dam at De Pere. All the waters 
of Green Bay north of the above described line 
shall be subject to the law covering Lake Michigan. 

(a) In Green Bay nets with a mesh not less 
than four inches may be used for the taking of 
lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets with a mesh 
not less than two and three-eighths inches may be 
used for taking herring, chub, bluefin, or perch. 
Seines with a mesh of not less than three inches 
and pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
any kind shall be set for the purpose of catching 
any variety of fish during the close season for 
such fish and from the first day of April to the 
fifteenth day of May, inclusive, except gill nets 
with mesh of not less than four inches for the 
purpose of taking lake trout or whitefish, no nets 
of any kind shall be set in the waters of Green 
Bay, During the period from January 1 to March 
10 gill nets with a mesh of two and one-eighth 
inches may be used under the ice for the purpose 
of catching herring. 

(b) In Lake Superior gill nets with a mesh 
of not less than four inches may be used for the 
purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 
nets with a mesh of not less than two and three- 
eighths inches may be used during the months of 
November and December for the purpose of taking 
herring. Seines with a mesh of not less than three 
inches and pound nets with a mesh of not more 
than two inches in the pound may be used. No 
nets of any kind shall be set or used for the pur- 
pose of taking any variety of fish during the close 
season for such fish. 

(c) In Lake Michigan gill nets with a mesh of 
not less than four inches may be used for the pur- 
pose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets 



Statutes Rei^atinc to Wild Animals. 67 

with a mesh of not less than two and one-haff 
inches may be used for the purpose of taking her- 
ring, chub, bluefin and perch but no such nets 
shall be set in less than forty fathoms of water. 
Seines with a mesh of not less than three inches 
and pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
any icind shall be set for the purpose of taking any 
variety of fish during the close season for such fish. 

(d) In Green Bay and Lake Michigan minnow 
seines fifty feet long and five feet deep may be 
used for taking rough fish minnows for bait. Each 
set-hook licensee may use not more than two 
thousand feet of gill net with a mesh of one and 
three-eighths inches, except in reserve waters, for 
the purpose of taking bloaters for bait. The pro- 
visions of subdivision (d) of subsection (7) of 
section 29.33, shall not take effect until January 1, 
1918. 

(e) All nets with a mesh other than such as 
above specified and all nets used in violation of this 
chapter are contraband nets and shall be seized 
and confiscated whenever found in the water or on 
any vessel, dock or reel. Any such contraband 
nets so found shall be deemed sufficient evidence 
of the use of such nets by the owner thereof. 

(8) Bass, muskellunge and sturgeon. All 
black bass, muskellunge and sturgeon taken in 
any net shall be immediately returned alive and 
without avoidable injury to the waters from which 
taken. 

(9) Undersize fish. No licensee of any net or 
set hooks shall transport or cause to be transported, 
fish of any of the varieties mentioned in this sub- 
section of a length less than that specified for each 
variety; and such measurement of length shall be 
taken in a straight line from the tip of the nose to 



68 State Cgnsebvation Commission. 

'the utmost end of the tail fin, except that the 
measurement of dressed fish be of the length of 
the carcass, namely: 

(These size limits cover Green Bay, Lake Michi- 
gan and Green Bay.) 

Lake trout 12 inches 

Whitefish 13 

Suckers 10 

Carp 12 

Suckers with head and tail off . 7 

Perch 8 

Perch with head and tail off 5 

Pike 13 

Pike with head and tail off 10 

Pickerel 16 

Pickerel with head and tail off 11 

Catfish 15 

Catfish with head off 13 

Any other variety 7 

Any licensee taking sucli undersize fish shall 
bring them to shore and immediately notify the 
state conservation commission or its deputy; and 
the latter shall take possession of such fish and de- 
liver them to some state, county, or charitable 
institution, or otherwise dispose of the same. 

(10) Possession, sale and transportation. No 
such licensee and no other person shall transport 
or cause to be transported, or deliver or receive 
or offer to deliver or receive for transportation or 
have in possession or under control any fish of 
the varieties mentioned in subsection (9) of a 
length less than that specified therein for each 
variety, respectively, whether lawfully or unlaw- 
fully taken within or without the state. When- 
ever such undersize fish are received by or offered 
to any person for transportation in the course of 



Statutes Rflating to Wild Animals. 69 

business, such person shall forthwith notify the 
state conservation commission, or its deputy, stat- 
ing full particulars. 

(11) Penalty. Any violation of subsections 
(1), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) of section 
29.33 shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
three hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for 
not less than six months nor more than nine 
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

(12) Reports. On or before January 10 fol- 
lowing the expiration of his license, each such li- 
censee shall report to the state conservation com- 
mission in writing, on blanks furnished by the said 
commission, the number of his license, the kind. 
number and size of nets, the length of lines of set 
hooks used, number of lineal feet of gill nets, the 
number of pounds and value of each variety of fish 
caught; and such other information as may be re- 
quired on the blanks furnished. Such report shall 
be subscribed to before a notary public or a justice 
of the peace. 

29.34. Net Licenses; Mississippi River Waters. 

(1) License authorized. Net licenses which shall 
authorize the use of nets, as limited herein, dur- 
ing the period of time extending from the fifteenth 
day of June to the next succeeding fifteenth day of 
April, for taking, catching, or killing fish* in the 
waters of the Mississippi river. Lake Pepin, and 
Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous, and 
sloughs tributary thereto and connected therewith, 
shall be issued subject to the provisions of section 
29.09 by the state conservation commission to any 
resident of the state duly applying therefor. 

(2) Bond. Before any such license is issued, 
the applicant shall execute and deliver to the state 
conservation commission a bond running to the 



70 State Conskrvation Commission. 

state of Wisconsin, in the sum of two hundred 
dollars, with two sureties, and conditioned that if 
the applicant shall well and faithfully observe and 
comply with all the provisions of this chapter, 
said obligation to be null and void, otherwise to 
remain in full force. Each said surety shall be 
worth and qualify in at least the sum of two hun- 
dred dollars, over and above all his debts and lia- 
bilities, in property within this state not exempt 
from sale on execution. 

(3) License period; nets specified. Each such 
license shall expire on the fifteenth day of April 
next succeeding the date of its issue, and shall 
authorize the use of one or more of the following 
nets only: Seines not exceeding a total length of 
four thousand feet, and having meshes of not less 
than five inches on the wings or four inches in the 
center of the pot, the pot not exceeding one hun- 
dred and fifty feet in length; gill nets having 
meshes of not less than seven inches; pound or 
hoop nets having meshes of not less than six 
inches in the leaders, five inches in the hearts, or 
three inches in the hoops; and bait nets to be 
used without leads, having meshes of not less than 
three inches, and not more than a four-foot front. 

(4) License fees. The fee for each such li- 
cense is as follows: For seines, one dollar per 
hundred for the first five hundred lineal feet, two 
dollars per hundred for the second five hundred 
lineal feet, three dollars per hundred for the third 
five hundred lineal feet, four dollars per hundred 
for the fourth five hundred lineal feet, five dollars 
per hundred for the fifth five hundred lineal feet, 
and six dollars for each one hundred lineal feet 
over twenty-five hundred; for gill nets, five dollars 
for the first two thousand lineal feet, and five 
dollars for each additional one thousand lineal feet; 



Statutes Rexatinq tq Wild Animals. 71 

for pound or hoop nets, five dollars for each 
seven hundred liiieal feet of leader and one pound, 
and five dollars for each additional pound, for 
bait nets, one dollar each. 

(5) Metal tags. No such licensed net shall be 
used until the same is equipped with metal tags 
stamped to designate the kind of net and number 
of the license covering the same. One such tag 
shall be securely fastened to each five hundred 
lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of seine; one to 
each two thousand lineal feet, or fraction thereof, 
of gill net; and one to each fyke, hoop, or bait net. 
Such tags shall be furnished by the state conser- 
vation commission to the licensee at the time 
of issuing the license, on payment of a fee of 
twenty-five cents for each tag. 

(6) Protected fish. No such licensed net shall 
be used for taking, catching, or killing any of the 
following named fish: catfish of any variety under 
fifteen inches in length in the rough, or twelve 
inches dressed with the head detached; pike of any 
variety, bass of any variety, crappies, sunfish, pick- 
erel, sturgeon, or perch. 

(7) Reserve waters. No such licensed net 
shall be used for taking, catching, or killing fish 
of any kind in any of the following named waters: 
Rice lake, French lake, Mud lake. Round lake. 
Long lake, French slough. Spring creek, Spring 
slough, and Black river in La Crosse county; Cour- 
tois pond, Pickerel, Spring, Nigger and French- 
town sloughs and Gordon bay, in Crawford county; 
the De Soto bay, Long slough, T slough, Green 
lake, Pick's lake and all sloughs, lakes and bayous 
from De Soto bay to the main channel of the Miss- 
issippi river and as far north as Battle Bar in Ver- 
non county; Cassville sloughs from Glen Haven to 
Cassville; Daley lake, Wyalusing bay and Glen 



72 State Conservation Commission. 

lake between Wyalusing and the Burlington rail- 
way bridge, Plondke and Harris sloughs, Craw- 
ford lake, Perry lake, and Bertram lake, all in 
Grant county; Trention lake, Trention slough, Mud 
lake and Mero slough in Pierce; and Beef slough in 
Buffalo county; and the Mississippi river within 
fifteen hundred feet of the mouth of the Chippewa 
river. 

(8) Temporary ponds; shipments. Each such 
licensee may construct temporary fish ponds and 
keep his fish therein until they can be marketed; 
and a card shall be attached to each shipment 
thereof, on which shall be written "Shipped under 
section 2934," the signature of the licensee, and 
the number of his license. 

(9) Reports. Each such licensee shall keep a 
strict record and account as to each variety of fish 
and the number of pounds thereof taken by him 
In such licensed nets; and shall report thereon to 
the state conservation commission on or before the 
fifteenth day of May covering his operations dur- 
ing the preceding year. (Penalty $50.00 to 
$100.00.) 

29.35 Net Licenses; Whitefish and Cisco in In- 
land lakes. (1) Net licenses which shall auth- 
orize the use of not exceeding one hundred lineal 
feet of gill net, with meshes not less than two and 
three-fourths inches, or dip nets with a diameter 
of not more than eight feet and with meshes not 
less than one and one-half inches, for taking, catch- 
ing or killing whitefish in any of the inland waters 
of the state containing whitefish, or not exceeding 
one hundred lineal feet of gill net, with meshes not 
less than two inches, for the purpose of catching 
ciscos in any of the inland waters of the state 
containing Cisco may be issued by the state con- 



Statutes Rexatinq to Wild Animals. 73 

servation commission, subject to the provisions of 
section 29.09, to any resident of the state duly ap- 
plying therefor. Sucji licenses may also be issued 
by the commission in its discretion, for the catch- 
ing of whitefish or ciscos, respectively, in any other 
inland waters. The fee for each such license is 
flfty cents. 

(2) Each such license shall be limited to such 
period of twenty days as shall be fixed by the state 
conservation commission, and no such whitefish 
licensee shall have in his possession or under his 
control at any time more than one hundred pounds 
of whitefish. 

(3) No such licensed net shall be used until 
the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
to designate the kind of net and number of the li- 
cense covering the same, to be securely fastened 
to each net. Such tag shall be furnished by the 
commission at the time of issuing the license. 
Spears may be used in the waters of Vilas county 
during the period from October 15 to November 15 
for the purpose of spearing cisco. (Penalty $50.00 
to $100.00.) 

29.36 Net Licenses; Rough Pish in Winnebago 
Waters. (1) The state conservation commission 
may upon application therefor issue to any person a 
license to use and operate a seine, fyke, hoop net, 
or a turtle net in lakes Winnebago, Winneeonne, 
Poygan, Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, 
and the Fox and Wolf rivers, for the purpose of 
taking and catching rough fish between the fif- 
teenth day of June of each year and the next 
succeeding first day of April. All the following 
varieties of fish so caught shall be the property of 
the licensee, i. e., pickerel, buffalo fish, carp, eel- 
pout, dogfish, sheepshead, billfish, red horse, suc- 
ker."?, lawyers arid lizards. 



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(2) The fee for eack Buch. license is aa followsi 
For a seine of five hundred feet and not over one 
thousand feet, twenty-five dolJ.ars; of one thousand 
feet or over, fifty dollars each: for seines of less 
than fire hundred feet, or fyke, hoop or turtle 
nets, five dollars each. No nets shall be used 
until the same are equipped with metal tags, 
stamped to designate the kind of net and num- 
bered to correspond with the number of the license 
authorizing the operation of said net or nets, one 
such metal tag to be securely fastened to each 
net. Such metal tags shall be furnished to the 
licensee by the state conservation commission on 
the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents for each 
tag. Any licensee operating a seine, seines, fyke 
or hoop net, under the provisions of this section, 
shall do so under the direction and personal sup- 
ervision of the state conservation commission or 
ine of its deputies, but not otherwise; but the 
state conservation commission may order one dep- 
uty to direct and supervise the operation of a seine, 
seines, fyke or hoop nets by more than one licensee. 

(3) All licenses under the provisions of this 
section shall be issued upon the express condition 
that each licensee operating a seine or seines shall 
pay to the state conservation commission one-half 
cent per pound for all fish taken under such li- 
cense and which are packed ready to be shipped 
or otherwise disposed of. Any and all moneys so 
received by the commission shall be paid into the 
state treasury. 

(4) Any licensee shall be allowed to ship or 
transport to any place he desires any fish taken 
under the provisions of this section, except those 
required to be immediately returned to the waters. 
A card shall be attached to the package or box in 
which tke same shall be shipped, on which shall b« 



Statutes Relatino to Wild Animals. 75 

written "Shipped under section 29.36," the signa- 
ture of the licensee, and the number of his license. 
(5) Each such licensee may construct tempo- 
rary fish ponds and keep his fish therein until they 
can be marketed. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.37 Set Line Licenses; Inland Waters. (1) 

Set line licenses which shall authorize the use of 
one set line only, with not exceeding twenty-five 
hooks, for taking, catching or killing fish, shall be 
issued, subject to the provisions of section 29.09, 
by the county clerk of the county bordering on 
the waters where such set lines are intended and 
permitted to be used, to any person duly applying 
therefor. 

(2) Each such license shall be limited to the 
period of time extending from the twenty-ninth 
day of May to the next succeeding fifteenth day of 
February. The fee for each such license is one 
dollar. 

(3) No such licensed set line shall be used un- 
til the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
to designate the number of the license covering 
the same, which shall be securely fastened to one 
end of the set line. Such tag shall be furnished 
by the state conservation commission to the county 
clerk, and by the latter to the licensee at the time 
of issuing the license, on payment of a fee of twenty- 
five cents. All fees received by the county clerks 
for such metal tags shall be returned and reported 
in the same manner as are license fees, as pre- 
scribed in section 29.09, but without deduction. 

(4) Such licensed set lines may be used only 
in the following waters: Big Wolf river in Waupaca 
and Outagamie counties; Lake Winnebago, Lake 
Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, Lake Win- 
neconne, Lake Poygan, Lake Puckaway, and the 



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river connecting said lakes, Fox river, except be- 
low the dam at De Pere; Wisconsin river from the 
north line of Sauk county to its mouth; Black 
river from the north line of Jackson county to its 
mouth; the Chippewa river from its mouth to the 
dam at Jim Falls, Chippewa county; Menomonee 
river bordering on Marinette county; the Pecaton- 
ica river in Green county; and the Mississippi 
river. Lake Pepin and Lake St. Croix. 

(5) In the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin and 
Lake St. Croix, Big Wolf river in Waupaca and 
Winnebago counties; in the Fox river in Winne- 
bago county and in Outagamie county as far as the 
dam at De Pare; in Lake Winnebago, Lake Winne- 
conne, Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte des 
Morts, Lake Poygan, three hundred hooks may be 
used but in such waters no frog, minnow or live 
bait shall be used. No licensed set line shall be 
equipped with any hooks smaller than i/'. (Pen- 
alty $50.00-$100.00.) 

CLAMMING 

29.38 Clamming Licenses. (1) No person 
who is not a resident of this state or who has re- 
sided in this state less than one year next previous 
shall take, catch or kill any clam in the inland wa- 
ters of this state unless a license therefor has 
been duly issued to him. Such licenses shall be 
issued subject to the provisions of section 29.09 by 
the state conservation commission to all such per- 
sons duly applying therefor. The fee for each 
such license is fifty dollars. Each such license© 
may use one boat only, in the exercise of his 
clamming privilege. 

(2) No person shall take, catch or kill any 
mussels in any of the waters of this state at any 
time with the use of a dredge. (Penalty 160.00— 
$100.00.) 



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POSSESSION OF GAME 

29.39 Possession During Close Sea£(on« or in 

Excess of Bag Ldmit. No person shall have in his 
possession or under his control, or have in storage 
or retention or as common carrier for any one 
person, any game, game fish, or other wild animal 
or carcass or part thereof, during the close season 
therefor, or in excess of the bag limit for one day 
or below the minimum size thereof at any one 
time during the open season, whether lawfully or 
unlawfully taken within or without the state. 
(Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.40 Possession of Deer; Heads and Skins. 

(1) Deer tags. Any person having lawfully 
killed a deer shall immediately attach and leave 
attached to the carcass, or part thereof, the deer 
tag corresponding to his license; and no person 
shall have in his possession or under his control, 
or have in storage or as a common carrier, any 
such carcass, or part thereof, without such tag at- 
tached. 

(2) Home consumption. Any person residing 
in this state having lawfully killed a deer, may 
have in his possession and consume the meat there- 
of in his own family at any time, but must leave 
the tag attached thereto. 

(3) Heads and skins. The head and skin of 
any deer lawfully killed, when severed from the 
rest of the carcass, are not subject to the provi- 
sions of this chapter; but no person shall have in 
his possession or under his control the green head 
or green skin of a deer between the tenth day of 
January and the succeeding 21st day of November 
of each year, or at any time a deer head in the 



78 State Conservation Commission. 

velvet, or a deer skin in the red, blue or spotted 
coat. (Penalty $50 to $100.) 

29.41 Skins of Fur-Bearing Animals. The skin 
of any fur-bearing animal lawfully killed, vv^hen 
separated from the rest of the carcass is Hot sub- 
ject to the provisions of this chapter; liut no per- 
son shall have in his possession or under his con- 
trol the skin of any fisher, marten, mink, or musk- 
rat showing that the same has been shot or 
speared, nor the green skin of any fur-bearing an- 
imal from tlie fifth day after the beginning of 
the close season for such animal until the ending 
thereof. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 

29.42 Possession of Game Birds. (1) With- 
out license. No person, other than the holder of 
a hunting license or scientist's certificate duly is- 
sued to him and in force and carried by him on 
his person, shall have in his possession or under 
his control any game bird, or animal, or the car- 
cass or any part thereof. (Penalty $50 to $100 
plus $5 for each bird.) 

(2) Nests and eggs. No person shall take or 
needlessly destroy, or have in his possession or 
under his control, except by virtue of a scientist'is 
certificate, the nest or eggs of any wild bird for 
which a close season is prescribed in this chapter. 
(Penalty $50 to $100.) 



Do Not Leave Your 



CAMP FIRE 



Until You Are 



Sure It Is Completely 



Extinguished 



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TRANSPORTATION OP GAME 

29.43 Ti'ansportation; General Provisions. (1) 

During close season. No person shall transport or 
cause to be transported, or deliver or receive or 
offer to deliver or receive for transportation, any 
game or game fish or carcass or part thereof dur- 
ing the close season therefor, whether lawfully or 
unlawfully taken within or without the state. 
Whenever any game or game fish or carcass or 
part thereof is offered to any person for trans- 
portation during the close season therefor such 
person shall forthwith notify the state conserva- 
tion commission or its deputy, stating full particu- 
lars of such offer and by whom made. 

(2) Trunks; valises. No person shall carry 
with him or under his control in any trunk, valise, 
or other package or enclosure, at any time, any 
game or game fish, or carcass or part thereof. 

(3) Transportation employes. No employe of 
any railroad, express, or other transportation com- 
pany, and no steward, porter, or other employe of 
any dining, parlor or sleeping car shall have in his 
personal possession or under his personal control, 
at any time while in such service, any game or 
game fish, or carcass or part thereof. 

(4) Labeling game shipments. No person 
shall transport or cause to be transported, or de- 
liver or receive for transportation, any package 
or parcel containing any wild animal or carcass 
or part thereof, unless the same is labeled in plain 
letters on the address side of such package or par- 
cel so as to disclose the name and addresn of the 
consignor, the name and address of the consignee, 
and the number of pounds of each kind of fish or 
the number of each variety of other wild animals; 



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or carcasses, or parts thereof, contained therein; 
and unless the consignor is the owner of such ship- 
ment and shall deliver to the common carrier 
therewith, either personally, or by agent, a writ- 
ing signed by him personally, stating that he is 
the owner of the shipment. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 

29.44 Interstate Transportation of Game. No 

person shall transport or cause to be transported, 
or deliver or receive or offer to deliver or receive 
for transportation, into or through this state, any 
game or game fish or carcass or part thereof from 
any other state in violation of the laws of such 
state relating to the transportation thereof; nor 
any game or game fish or carcass or part thereof 
lawfully transported from any other state, nor 
have the same in his possession or under his con- 
trol, during the close season or in excess of the 
limitations prescribed for such animal in this chap- 
ter, unless a permit therefor has been duly issued 
to such person by the state conservation commis- 
sion; but any person who has lawfully killed a 
deer in this state may, on his license only, take 
such deer into any adjoining state, if the laws 
thereof permit, and ship the same from any point 
in that state to any point within this state (Pen- 
alty $50-$100.) 

29.45 Transportrtion of Deer. (1) No com- 
mon carrier shall receive for transportation or 
transport or attempt to transport any deer, or 
carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as pro- 
vided in this section. 

(2) Each holder of & resident hunting license, 
settler's hunting license, or* nonresident general 
hunting license, may transport or cause to be 



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transported one deer between the last ten days of 
November of each year; but must accompany the 
same from the point of shipment to the point of 
destination. 

(3) The place of delivery of any such ship- 
ment by a resident licensee shall be within the 
state, and by a nonresident licensee may be either 
within the state or at his residence without the 
state. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 

29.46 Transportation of Game Birds. (1) 

No common carrier shall receive for transportation 
or transport or attempt to transport any game 
bird, or carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as 
follows: Each holder of a hunting license may 
carry with him openly, in his personal possession, 
a mixed bag of not more than twenty such birds, 
but not more than the bag limit for one day of 
any one variety; but no such licensee resident 
within this state shall carry or convey any such 
birds beyond the borders of the state. (Penalty 
$50,00-$100.00 plus $5.00 for each bird.) 

29.47 Transportation of Fish. ( 1 ) Time lim- 
itation. No person shall transport or cause to be 
transported, or deliver or receive or offer to de- 
liver or receive for transportation, any game fish 
taken from inland waters, during the period ex- 
tending from the first day of January to the last 
day of the close season for such fish, in each year. 

(2) From inland waters. No person shall 
transport or cause to be transported, or deliver 
or receive or offer to deliver or receive ''for trans- 
portation, at any time, any game fish taken from 
inland waters other than as follows: 

(a) One shipment only of not more than one 
package, and containing not nore than twenty 



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83 



pounds of game fish of any variety other than those 
named in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsec- 
tion, or containing in lieu thereof not more than 
two such fish of any weight, may be transported 
by any resident to any point within the state, or 
by any nonresident licensee to any point without 
the state in each period of seven days. Nonresi- 
dent hook and line fishing licenses may be issued 
by the state conservation commission to any non- 
resident female over the age of sixteen years for 
the purpose of making shipment without the state, 
under the provisions of this section. 

(b) Any shipment containing more than 
twenty but not exceeding fifty pounds of game fish 
of any variety other than those named in para- 
graphs (c) and (d) of this subsection may be 
transported only to a point within this state, and 
must be accompanied by the owner from the point 
of shipment to the point of destination. 

(c) Thirty-five trout of any variety other than 
lake trout may be transported to any point within 
or without the state, when accompanied by the 
owner from the point of shipment to the point of 
destination. 

Cd) One shipment only, containing not more 
than twenty pounds of lake trout taken from in- 
land waters, may be transported by any person in 
each period of seven days, to any point within or 
without this state, when accompanied by the owner 
from the point of shipment to the point of desti- 
nation. 

(3) From outlying waters. The transporta- 
tion of fish taken in outlying waters is subject f 
the following limitations: 

(a) No green fish of any variety shall be ship- 
ped from any port located on outlying waters dur- 



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ing the close season for such fish, except the first 
three days thereof. 

(b) Pike and pickerel of lawful size and law- 
fully taken from outlying waters may be trans- 
ported to points within or without the state with- 
out limitation as to quantity; but all such ship- 
ments shall be billed only from a port on outlying 
waters directly to their destination, and shall not 
be rebilled or reshipped from any other point 
within the state. 

(4) Shipments from inland points. Any ship- 
ment of game fish of any variety originating at 
any point in this state other than ports located on 
outlying waters is subject to the nrovisions of this 
section governing the transport^ion of game fish 
taken from inland waters. 

(5) Foreign shipments. Pike and pickerel in 
a frozen state, whether dressed or not dressed, 
legally taken or imported from any foreign coun- 
try, are not subject to any of the provisions of this 
chapter except subsection (10) of section 29.33; 
but the person importing, transporting, dealing in, 
or selling such fish shall keep a separate record of 
all shipments and consignments thereof, contain- 
ing the number of pounds, the date received, the 
name of the consignor, and the name of the car- 
rier transporting the same, which shall be at all 
times open to inspection by the state conservation 
commission or its deputies. 

(6) Injurious fish. Live carp minnows and 
•^ogfish minnows shall not be transported within 
the state. (Penalty $5 0.0 0-$ 10 0.00.) 



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COMMERCE IN GAME 

29.48 Sale of Game. Except as provided by 
section 29.5 2 no person shall sell, purchase, or 
barter, or offer to sell, purchase, or barter, or have 
in his possession or under his control for the pur- 
pose of sale or barter, any deer, squirrel, game 
bird, black bass, muskellunge, or trout other than 
lake trout, or the carcass or part thereof, at any 
time; nor any other game fish taken from inland 
waters during the period extending from the first 
day of January to the next succeeding twenty-ninth 
day of May of each year; nor any other game or 
other wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, dur- 
ing the close season therefor. This section ap- 
plies, whether such animals were lawfully or un- 
lawfully taken within or without the state. (Pen- 
alty $50-$100.) 

29.49 Serving of Game to Guests. (1) Pro^ 
hibited. Except as provided by section 29.52 no 
innkeeper, manager or steward of any restaurant, 
club, hotel, boarding house, saloon, logging camp, 
Or mining camp shall sell, barter, serve or give, or 
cause to be sold, bartered, served, or given to the 
guests or boarders thereof the meat of any deer, 
squirrel, game bird, or trout other than lake trout, 
or the carcass or part thereof, at any time; nor 
any other game fish taken from inland waters 
during the period extending from the first day of 
January to the next succeeding twenty-ninth day 
of May of each year; nor any frog or other 
game or other wild animal, or carcass or part 
thereof, during the close season therefor, except 
rabbits in counties containing a city of the first 
class. This section applies, whether such animals 



86 State Conservation Commission. 

were lawfully or unlawfully taken within or with- 
out the slate. 

(2) Free lunch. The giving, offering, or af- 
fording opportunity to take free lunch in any of 
the places named in the preceding subsection shall 
be held to be embraced within the prohibitions 
thereof. 

(3) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im- 
prisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
months nor more than one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 

PROPAGATION OF WILD ANIMAIiS 

29.50 Propagation Privileged. Nothing in the 
foregoing provisions concerning the protection of 
wild animals shall affect the operation of state 
hatcheries, the removal of fish which have died 
from natural causes or the removal of deleterious 
fish by the state conservation commission or under 
its authority; or the propagation or transporta- 
tion, collecting and transplanting of fish or fish 
fry by state authority; nor the transportation of 
fish into or through this state or out of it by the 
commissioners of fisheries of other states or of 
the United States; nor the operation of private fish 
hatcheries, or the propagation of fish in private 
waters, or the transportation and sale of fish there- 
from as hereinafter provided; but the state con- 
servation commission, or its agents and employes, 
shall not furnish fish or fry from state hatcheries 
to private ponds, private clubs, corporations or 
preserves, and shall not plant them in waters where 
the general public is not allowed the rights and 
privileges enjoyed by any individual. 



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29.51 State Propagation of Fish. (1) State 
fisli hatcheries. The state conservation commis- 
sion shall have general charge of the following 
matters, and all necessary powers therefor, namely: 

(a) The propagation and breeding of fish of 
such species and varieties as they deem of value. 

(b) The collection and diffusion of useful in- 
formation in regard to the propagation and con- 
servation of fish. 

(c) The government and control, care, sup- 
ply, and repair of the state fish hatcheries and the 
grounds used therefor, whether owned or leased, 
and the buildings, ponds, fish car and other ap- 
paratus, and all other prpoerty belonging to or 
held by the state for the propagation of fish. 

(d) The purchase and establishment and con- 
trol, in like manner, of new hatcheries when ap- 
propriations shall be made by law, and the es- 
tablishment of such temporary hatching stations 
as they may deem necessary. 

(e) The receiving from the commissioners of 
fisheries of the United States, and from the com- 
missioners of fisheries of other states, or other per- 
sons, of all spawn, fry or fish donated to the state 
or purchased, and in the most practical ways, by 
exchange or otherwise, to procure, receive, dis- 
tribute, and dispose of spawn and fish; to make 
contracts and carry on the same for the transpor- 
tation of fish cars, cans, commissioners and em- 
ployes by land or water as may be most advan- 
tageous to the state; and to take such other meas- 
ures as in their judgment shall best promote the 
abundant supply of food fishes in the waters of 
the state. 

(f) The commission shall keep an inventory 
of the property of the several hatcheries, with the 
cost of each article, and account in detail and sep- 



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arately of the expenses of each hatchery; also of 
the distribution of the fish, of maintaining and 
repairing property and of such improvements as 
may from time to time be ordered. 

(2) Transplantation of fish. The commission 
may take or cause to be taken fish at all seasons 
of the year from any waters of the state for stock- 
ing other waters, or for the purpose of securing 
eggs for artificial propagation in the state hatch- 
eries. Such fish or eggs shall be taken only un- 
der a special permit issued by the commission, and 
then only in the presence of the commission or its 
deputies. Such permit shall specify the kinds of 
fish that may be taken and the manner in which 
they may be taken; and shall be subject to the con- 
ditions that the holder shall pay for the services 
of and furnish free transportation and meals on 
his boat to a competent person approved by the 
commission to spawn the fish and fertilize the 
eggs, and that such eggs shall be delivered at 
such place as may be dv__Ugnated by the commis- 
sion and forwarded to some state hatchery for 
propagation. 

(3) Delivery of spawn. Any person fishing in 
any waters of this state shall deliver, on demand, 
to the state conservation commission or its depu 
ties or authorized agents, all kinds of fish, during 
the spawning season, for the purpose of being 
stripped of their eggs and milk; and the person 
receiving them shall, immediately after having 
stripped the fish, return them to the person from 
whom received. Any such person shall permit the 
commission, or its deputies, or authorized agents 
to enter any boats, docks, grounds or other places 
where such fish may be, for the purpose of strip- 
ping the same while alive, and shall render such 
assistance as may be necessary to expedite the 



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work of mixing the eggs and milk for proper im- 
pregnation. 

(4) Removal of spawn or fish from state. No 
person shall remove any fish egg or live fish from 
this state except as authorized by law, unless a 
permit therefor has been issued to him by the state 
conservation commission. 

(5) Unlawful fishing by employes. No em- 
ploye of the commission, and no other person, 
while engaged in catching wild fish from the pub- 
lic waters for purposes of artificial propagation, 
shall take or have in his possession or under hia 
control any kind of fish other than those he has 
been directed, by the commission or its deputy or 
agent, to take therefrom. 

29.52 Private Fish Hatcheries. (1) No per- 
son shall stock any private fish hatchery with fish 
or fry obtained from any Wisconsin state fish 
hatchery, or from any waters of the state except 
when such fish have been taken in a lawful man- 
ner. 

(2) The term "private fish hatchery" includes 
on1v nrivatp nonds, with or without buildings, used 
for the purpose of propagating fish and located as 
follows: 

(a) At the hea^l waters of or along a stream 
for a distance of not to exceed one mile, on private 
land possessed and controlled by the owner or 
owners of such hatchery. 

(b) On private land where the supply of wa- 
ter for the hatchery is furnished by springs or 
artificial wells. 

(c) On private land where the supply of wa- 
ter for the hatchery is obtained by the use ef 
flumes, pipes, or ditches from flowing streams, pro- 
vided that saifT fluiinefi. l^ipes. or dUcbe£, shall be 



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property screened fo as to prevent fish from past- 
ing from such streams to the ponds of such hatch- 
ery. 

"(3) The owner or lessee of any private hatch- 
ery shall report to the state conservation commis- 
sion the name, if any, and location of such hatch- 
ery, whereupon the commission shall inspect, and 
in its discretion number and register such hatch- 
ery and immediately inform the owner or lessee 
of the number given such hatchery; such owner 
or lessee shall, however, pay a registration fee 
of five dollars, and all expenses of inspection ex- 
cept the salary of the employe who inspects the 
hatchery. 

(4) Each package or box containing fish prop- 
agated and raised in any private hatchery and 
shipped or offered for shipment shall be branded 
with an iron brand as follows: "Shipped from the 
private fish hatchery of (insert name of owner or 
lessee, location, and number of hatchery)" and 
such brands shall not be used on packages contain- 
ing fish not taken from such private hatchery. 

(5) Any person who shall, without permission 
of the owner, trespass or fish on the waters of a 
private hatchery or fish pond properly registered 
with the state conservation commission, shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than fifteen dollars 
nor more than twenty-five dollars and in default 
of payment thereof shall L^ Imprisoned in the 
county jail for not less than ten days nor more 
than twenty days; provided, that the owner of such 
private fish hatchery or fish pond gives notice b:« 
maintaining signboards, at least one foot square 
in at least two conspicuous places to every forty 
acres. Prosecutions under this subsection sha)' 
be by the owner of such private hatchery or pone 



Statutes Relatiw* to Wiuj Ajsiuais. 91 

29.54 State Propagation of Wild Mammals and 
Birds. (1) The state conservation commission 
is authorized to take or purchase wild mammals 
and birds and their eggs for propagation. The 
distribution thereof shall be made throughout the 
various parts of the state under the supervision 
and direction of the commission, and according to 
such regulations as they shall prescribe. 

(2) No person shall take, remove, sell, or 
transport from the public waters of this state to 
any place beyond the borders of the state, any 
duck potato, wild celery, or any other plant or 
plant product except wild rice native in said water? 
and commonly known to furnish food for game 
birds. 

29.55 Wild Animals For Parks. (1) The 

state conservation commission may, on application 
of any park board, grant permit to take, have, 
sell, barter, or transport, at any time, live wild 
animals for park purposes. 

(2) The state conservation commission may, 
on application of any person, grant a permit to 
such person to take and transport wild animals 
for propagation within the state, under the super- 
vision of the commission or its deputies. 

29.56 Forest County Game Refuge. Town- 
ships thirty-eight north, of range twelve and thir- 
teen east, Forest county, shall be known as the 
Forest County Refuge. No person shall at any 
time or in any manner, hunt any game within 
said refuge. 

20.57 WUd Life Refuges. (1) Establish- 
ment The owner or owners of any tract, or con- 
tlsnons tntetB, of land eomprlslnsr in the aggregate 



92 State Ck)issi:BTATioN CoMiCMSioir. 

not less than one hundred and sixty acres located 
outside the limits of any city or village, may ap- 
ply to the state conservation commission for the 
establishment of said lands as a wild life refuge. 
The commission may thereupon employ such means 
as it may deem wise to inform itself regarding the 
premises; and if, upon inspection, investigation, 
hearing, or otherwise, it shall appear to the satis- 
faction of the commission that the establishment 
of said lands as a wild life refuge will promo*te 
the conservation of one or more useful species or 
varieties not native within this state, it may by 
order designate and establish the said lands as a 
wild life refuge. 

(2) Enclosure. Within thirty days after the 
date of such order the owner or owners of the 
said lands shall enclose the same, wherever the 
same are not already enclosed by a fence, with a 
single substantial wire, and shall post and main- 
tain along the said wire or fence, at each inter- 
yal of twenty rods, signs or notices, furnished by 

he state conservation commission, proclaiming the 
establishment of said refuge. 

(3) Publication. No such order shall be ef- 
fective until at least thirty days after the date of 
its issue; nor unless the commission shall have 
caused notice thereof to be given by its publica- 
tion, once in each week for three successive weeks 
next preceding the date of its effect. In at least one 
newspaper published in the county embracing the 
said lands. Thereupon the said lands shall be a 
wild life refuge, and shall so remain for a period 
of not less than five years, from and after the 
date of effect stated in said order. 

(4) Absolute protection. No owner of lands 
embraced within any such wild life refuge, aad 
BO other person whatever, shall bunt or tri^^ witb- 



Statutes Rexatiiso to Wild Animals. 93 

In the boundaries of any wild life refuge, state 
park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor have in his 
possession or under his control therein any gun 
or rifle, unless the same is unloaded and knocked 
down or enclosed within its carrying case; but 
nothing herein shall prohibit, prevent, or interfere 
with the state conservation commission, or its dep- 
uties, agents or employes, in the destruction of in- 
jurious animals. 

(5) Animals procured by commission. The 
state conservation commission may place within 
any such wild life refuge, for the purpose of 
propagation, wild animals of any species or va- 
riety. 

DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMAIiS 

29.58 Muskrats Injuring Dams. The owner or 
lessee of any dam may in any manner capture or 
kill muskrats at any time when said muskrats are 
injuring or destroying such dams or the levees con- 
nected therewith; but shall not sell, barter, or give 
to any other person the skin of any muskrat cap- 
tured or killed during the close season therefor. 

29.59 Beaver Causing Damage. (1) Com- 
plaint. Upon complaint in writing, by the owner 
or lessee of any lands, to the state conservation 
commission, that beaver are causing damage there- 
to the commission shall employ such means as it 
may deem wise to inquire into the matter; and 
if, upon inspection, investigation, hearing, or oth- 
erwise, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 
commission that the facts stated in such complaint 
ar^ true, it may, by written permit, authorize the 
said owaer or lessee to capture and remove such 
bea-yer. as hereinafter prescribed. 



H State Consjkbvation Commission". 

(2) Supervision. No beaver shall be captured 
or killed under such permit except only during 
such period of time, from and after the first day 
of January in each year, as may be limited by the 
commission, and then only under the direct su- 
pervision of a deputy conservation warden. 

(3) Disposition of animals. The owner or les- 
see shall capture, alive and without avoidable in- 
jury, such number of beaver as may be designated! 
by the commission, for delivery to zoological parka i 
or collections or for transplantation to other lo- 
calities within the state; all others shall be killed I 
and skinned with care to conserve the value off 
the skins, which shall be shipped without delay toi 
Madison, consigned to the state conservation com-- 
mission. 

(4) Sale and disposition of proceeds. All such 
skins shall be sold by the commission, in the man- 
ner of a sale of confiscated game, and the pro- 
ceeds paid into the conservation fund. 

(5) In Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties. Li- 
censes for the taking, catching or killing of beaver 
in Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties during the 
open season therefor, as provided in subdivision 
(a) of subsection (3m) of section 62.16, may be 
issued by the conservation commission to resi- 
dents who duly apply therefor and no person shall 
take, catch or kill beaver in said counties without 
procuring such a license. Said license shall cover 
the period for the month of December in the year 
for which the same was issued and the fee there- 
for shall be two dollars and fifty cents for each 
such license. No skin of any beaver taken, caught 
or killed under said license shall be delivered, 
transported oi shipped unless It has attached 
thereto a distinctive tag to be prescribed and fur- 
nishttd by th« atate conservation commission. LI- 



Statutkb Rtlatiwo to Wild AsmojdM, 9i 

o*ns««8 shall dispose of all beaver skins ea or be- 
fore the twentieth day of January following the 
date of the issuance of the license and every li- 
censee shall on or before the thirtieth day of Jan- 
uary following the date of the issuance of his li- 
cense return the same to the state conservation 
commission for cancellation together with a com- 
plete report on a blank to be furnished by the said 
commission stating the number of beavers taken, 
caught or killed, the name of the town in which 
the same were taken, caught or killed, the dispo- 
sition of the hides and the amount received there- 
for. Any resident of Price, Rusk and Sawyer 
counties who have suffered or is likely to suffer 
damage because of any beaver dam on his land 
shall notify the game warden of his district of 
such fact. After the expiration of five days after 
giving such notice, said resident may open said 
dam. No resident of said county shall be allowed 
any claim against this state for damages sustained 
on account of beaver during the years 1917 and 
1918. 

(6) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
months nor more than one year, or by both such 
.fine and imprisonment. 

29.595 Deer Causing Damage. Upon com- 
plaint in writing by the owner or lessee of any 
lands, to the state conservation commission, that 
deer are causing damage therein the commission 
shall inquire into the matter; and if upon inspec- 
tion, investigation, hearing, or otherwise, it shall 
appear to the satisfaction of the commission that 
'he facta stated in each purh complaint are true. 



9€ SlATS CeilSKSVATiOn COMMISSIOli. 

it may eaptnre or destroy such deer, and dispose 
of the same as provided in subsections (3) and 
(4) of section 29.59. 

29.60 Bounties on Wolves and Foxes. (1) 

Any person who shall kill any wolf cub between 
the first day of March and the first day of No- 
vember next following shall be entitled to a re- 
ward of four 'dollars, or any mature wolf at any 
time ten dollars, or any fox at any time two dol- 
lars, to be paid by the county wherein said wolf 
or fox was killed. By a 6iajority vote at any an- 
nual meeting, the county board of any county may 
increase any of said rewards in said county, but 
no county shall pay more than six dollars for the 
killing of any wolf cub as above described. A 
reward for the killing of any wolf or fox shall be 
paid out of the state treasury equal to that paid 
by the county. 

(2) Any person claiming such reward shall 
exhibit the carcass of the animal killed, not earlier 
than eight o'clock a. m., nor later than five o'clock 
p. m., of any day within six days after the killing 
thereof to the chairman of the town wherein it 
was killed, and shall sign and deliver to him in 
the presence of at least one subscribing witness, a 
statement in suT)stantially the following form: 

STATE OF WISCONSIN, 



County of , Town of 



( 



"1 



'I, the undersigned, hereby declare and state 

that I did personally on the day of , 

19 in said town kill or cause to be killed the 

animal here exhibited to the chairman of said town 

and that it is the carcass of a , that I 

did n«t raise or rear ©r cause to be raised or reaped 
for me and did net in an^ way harbor the aald 



Statutes Reiatinq to Wild Animals. 97 

animal, and I make this statement for the purpose 
of procuring a reward therefor from the county 
and state, and a ceitificate from said chairman 
for a 

Signed and delivered . this day of 

, 19___ 

In the presence of: 



., Claimant. 



Thereupon said chairman shall cause to be 
removed in his presence the scalp of said animal 
with both ears and both of the upper eyelids en- 
tire, and may issue a certificate to said claimant in 
duplicate, in the following form: 



STATE OF WISCONSIN, 
County of , Town of. 



V 63. 



I, , chairman of said town in said 

county, do certify that has this 

day of , 19--, at o'clock m., 

exhibited to me the carcass of a , which 

he claims to have killed in said town on the 

day of , 19 , and that the scalp 

with both ears and both of the upper eyelids en- 
tire of said were removed in my pretj- 

ence and that he delivered to me the statement 
in writing required by law of him to be made. 

Given under my hand and witnessed this 

day of , 19 

In the presence of: 



Chairman of the Town. 



Such statement and a duplicate copy of such 



98 Statb Consektation Commission. 

certificate shall be filed and recorded in the office 
of the town clerk of said town within ten days 
after the same is issued. 

(3) Thereupon such claimant shall take and 
subscribe before the chairman of the town, who is 
hereby authorized to administer the same, the fol- 
lowing oath: 

STATE OP WISCONSIN, j 

County of C 

I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) 

that the scalp produced by me is the scalp of a 

taken and killed by me in the town of 

in said county on the day of 

, 19 — ,_; that I made and delivered to 

the chairman of said town the statement required 
by law, and exhibited to him the carcass of such 
; that the certificate of said chair- 
man herewith produced by me was signed in my 

presence and in the presence of , and 

that I have not spared the life of any wolf or fox 
within my power to kill, and that each and every 
declaration and statement made by me in the 
statement delivered to the chairman of said town 
l8 true. 

, Claimant. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 

day of , 19 

Chairman of the town of 

Within twenty days after subscribing such aftt- 
lavit, the claimant shall deliver or forward, charges 
prepaid, to the county clerk the scalp of such ani- 
cnal with both ears and both upper eyelids entire, 
together with the certificate of the town chairman 
and the affidavit of the claimant, provided for in 
this section. Upon receipt thereof the county clerk 
shall forthwith call into his office the register of 
deeds. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 99 

(4) Such clerk and register of deeds shall 
cause such scalp to be destroyed in their presence, 
and the clerk shall issue an order on the county 
treasurer in favor nf the claimant for the amount 
due from the county, giving his full name and post- 
office address, and shall enter in a book the name 
of the claimant, date of oath and amount paid by 
said county to such claimant. The amount speci- 
fied in such order shall be paid to the claimant by 
the treasurer, or shall be mailed to him as directed 
in such order. Within ten days the clerk shall 
transmit to the secretary of state such oath of the 
claimant together with a certificate on blanks fur- 
nished by the secretary of state in the following 
form: 

STATE OP WISCONSIN, j 
County of | 

I, , county clerk of said county, do 

certify that who subscribed the fore- 
going affidavit, presented or forwarded to me and 
the register of deeds at said time the scalp of a 

with both ears and both upper eyelids 

entire; that we caused such scalp with both ears 
and both upper eyelids entire to be destroyed in our 
presence before the signing of this certificate; that 
the certificate of the chairman of the town of 

is on file in the office of the county clerk; 

that said county of . paid the said , 

claimant, who subscribed to the said oath the 

sum of dollars for the killing of said 

mentioned in said oath. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 

and affixed my official seal at , this 

day of , 19 

County Clerk. 



iOO State Conservation Commission. 

On receipt of such oath and certificate by the 
secretaiy of state, he sliall audit such claim and 
issue his warrant for its payment. 

(5) For the destruction of wolves, wildcats or 
Ij^-nxes it is lawful to put out baits containing poi- 
son between the first day of December and the 
first day of March, but the same shall not be placed 
within eighty rods of a dwelling house, and the 
persons putting out such baits shall, before doing 
BO, post in three public places in the town notice 
of putting out such baits, describing the land and 
location where such baits are placed and the date 
when put out, and within three days after the first 
day of March shall take up and effectively destroy 
the same. For the failure or neglect to so post 
such notices or to so take up and destroy said baits 
fSe person so putting out the same shall be liable 
for all damages resulting therefrom and shall be 
punished as provided in the last section of this 
chapter. The same reward shall be paid for any 
wolf so destroyed by poison as is herein provided 
for otherwise killing wolves. 

29.61 Destruction of Other Injurious Animals; 
Rewards. (1) The county board of any county 
may direct that every person who shall kill any 
crow shall be entitled to a reward of not to exceed 
fifteen cents, or any sharpshinned or cooper's 
hawk twenty-five cents, or any pocket gopher 
twenty-five cents, or any streaked gopher ten cents, 
or any English sparrow four cents, or any black- 
bird four cents, or any rattlesnake fifty cents. 

(2) Any person claiming such reward shall ex- 
hibit the head or rattles of the animal so killed to 
the chairman of the town or the president of the 
village wherein it was killed and present an aflSda- 



Statutes Relating to Wiu) Animals. 101 

vit to such president or chairman stating that said 
head or rattles are of the animal killed by him 
and that he has not spared the life of any such ani- 
mal or bird within his power to kill. Such chair- 
man or president shall then issue a certificate in 
the following form: 

STATE OF WISCONSIN ^ 
County of f ^^• 



I, , chairman of the town of 

(or president of the village of ), do cer- 
tify that has this day exhibited to me 

the head (or rattles), of , which he claims 

to have killed in said town (village), and that the 

head (or rattles) of said__^ was (were) 

destroyed in my presence, and that the said 

is on presentation of this certificate 

to the town clerk (village clerk), within twenty 
days from the date hereof, entitled to an order on 

the town (village) treasurer for the sum of . 

dollars, to be drawn from th'^; general fund of 'said 
town (village). 

Dated this day of ,19 



Chairman (President) 
of the town (village) of 

(3) The town or village clerk, respectively, 
shall on the production of the certificate of the 
chairman of the town, or president of the village, 
issue to the holder thereof an order on the town 
or village treasurer, respectively, for the amount 
stated in said certificate. 

(4) The treasurers of the various villages and 
towns shall, at the close of their accounts on the 
thirtieth day of October in each year certify to the 
county clerk the amount of money expended by 



102 State Conservation Commission. 

their respective towns and villages under the pro- 
visions of this section. Such treasurer shall at- 
tach to the certificate an affidavit stating that the 
account is just and that his town or village has 
actually expended the amount therein stated. The 
certificate aad affidavit shall be placed on file in 
the office of the county clerk and the account 
shall be audited by the county board and the 
amount thereof paid to the treasurers of the re- 
spective towns and villages from any money in the 
general funds of the county not otherwise appro- 
priated. 

29.62 Removal of bijurious Rough Fish. (1) 

The state conservation commission is authorized 
Lo take rough fish by means of nets, or cause the 
same to be so taken, from any of the inland wa- 
ters of this state other than those specified in sub- 
section (2), whenever it shall find that such fish 
are detrimental to, retard the propagation of, or 
destroy game fish therein. 

(2) The authority granted to the commissioM 
by subsection (1) does not extend to Lake Kosh- 
konong; any stream or river flowing into Green 
Bay or Lake Michigan except that part of the Fox 
river and its tributaries above the city of Apple- 
ton; the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin, Lake St. 
Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous and sloughs 
tributary thereto and connected therewith; and 
any stream or river flowing into the Mississippi 
river, within a distance of forty miles above the 
mouth of such stream or river. 

(3) All fish taken under the authority of this 
section shall be disposed of by the commission to 
the best interest of the state; and temporary fish 
ponds may be created in the waters of this state 
for the purpose of keeping such fish until the same 
can be advantageously disposed of. 



ASK YOUR GUIDE 



FOR HIS 



LICENSE CARD 



See That He Carries His 



BADGE 



And That It Is Licensed 



BY THE 



STATE 



104 State Consebvation Commission. 



PENALTIES 

29.63 General Penalty Provisions. (1) Pen- 
alties. Any person who, for himself, or by his 
agent, servant, or employe, or who, as agent, serv- 
ant, or employe for another, violates any of the 
provisions of this chapter shall be punished, re- 
spectively, as follows: 

(a) For the unlawful use of any gill net in 
taking, catching or killing fish of any variety in 
any waters, or for the use of any net in taking, 
catching or killing trout of any variety in inland 
waters, by a fine of not less than two hundred nor 
more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 
in the county jail not less than nine months nor 
more than olie year, or by both such fine and im- 
prisonment. 

(b) For hunting, trapping, fishing, or clam- 
ming without a license duly issued, whenever a 
license therefor is required by the provisions of 
this chapter, or for hunting, under a receipt or 
other evidence of having filed an application, in 
anticipation of the issuance and delivery of such 
license, or for the violation of any provision relat- 
ing to deer, by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in 
the county jail not less than thirty days nor more 
than one year, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. 

(c) For the violation of any provision relating 
to game birds, by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
more than one hundred dollars, and in addition 
thereto five dollars for each bird affected by such 
violation, or by imprisonment in the county jail 
not less than thirty days nor more than six months, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 10& 

(d) For any violation for which no other pen- 
alty is prescribed, by a fine of not less than fifty 
Bor more than one hundred dollars, or by impris- 
onment in the county jail not less than thirty days 
nor more than six months, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment. 

(2) "Person" defined. The word "person" as 
used in this section includes natural persons, firms, 
associations, and c6rporations. 

(3) Revocation of license. Upon conviction 
of any person for any violation under any license 
issued to such person, such license shall be im- 
mediately revoked and canceled, and no license 
shall be issued to such person for a period of one 
year thereafter. 

(4) Construction of penalty provisions. No 
penalty prescribed in any section of this chapter 
shall be held to be diminished because the viola- 
tion for which it is prescribed falls also within 
the scope of a more general prohibition. 

(5) Presumptions. In any prosecution under 
this section it shall not be necessary for the state 
to alle;?e or prove thft^the animals were not do- 
mesticated or were not taktn for scientific pur- 
poses, or were taken or in possession or u^der 
control without a license or permit therefor; but 
the person claiming that such animals were do- 
mesticated, or were taken for scientific purposes. 
or were taken or in possession or under control 
under a license or permit duly issued, shall have 
the burden of proving such fact or facts. 

(6) Reward to informers. Any person other 
than the regular employes of the state conservation 
commission, informing of the violation of any pro- 
vision of this chapter and assisting in the prosecu- 
tion of the offender to conviction shall receive one- 
third of any fine imposed and collected thereupon. 



106 State Conservation Commission. 

False Impersonation as Deputy Conservation 
Warden. Section 4562a. Any person who shall 
falsely represent himself to be a deputy conserva- 
tion warden, or who shall assume to act as such 
without having been first duly appointed as such, 
shall be punished by imprisonment in the county 
jail not more than six months, or by a fine not to 
exceed one hundred dollars. 

Alteration of Hunting License. Section 4562b. 
Any person who shall change or alter, in any man- 
ner, a license for the pursuit, hunting or killing 
of deer shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
less than six months nor exceeding one year. 

False Statement of Residence in Application for 
Hunting License. Section 4562c. Any person who 
shall make to any county clerk authorized to issue 
licenses for the pursuit, hunting or killing of deer 
a false statement concerning his residence, and 
thereby obtain such a license therefor as only res- 
idents of this state are entitled to, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than five hundred dol- 
lars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by im- 
prisonment in the county jail not less than four 
months nor more than one year, or in the state 
prison not exceeding one year. 

Section 4562(i. Any person who shall break, 
remove or interfere with any seal or tag attached 
to any animal, carcass, article or other thing by 
the state conservation commission, or who shall 
meddle or interfere with any animal, carcass, arti- 
cle or other thing with such seal or tag attached, 
or who shall counterfeit any such seal or tag, at- 
tached or unattached, shall be punished by a fine 



Statutes Rt:LATi>o to Wild Ammals. 107 

of not less than two hundred nor more than five 
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail not less than nine months nor more than one 
year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

Taking Carrier Pigeon. Section 45 6 5&. Any 
person who shall take, catch, kill, impede in its 
progress or otherwise interfere with any carrier 
or homing pigeon shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dol- 
lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not 
more than three months. 

Hunting on Lands of Another. Section 4565(!, 
Any person who shall enter into any growing or 
standing grain not his own, with firearms or per- 
mit his dog to enter into any such grain, without 
the permission of the owner or occupant of the 
land on which such grain is situate or any person 
who shall, without permission of the owner, hunt 
or shoot on the premises of another inclosed by a 
fence and used as a pasture for stock, or shall hunt 
or shoot upon any other land of another after 
being notified not to hunt or shoot thereon, shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars 
nor more than ten dollars and in default of pay- 
ment thereof, shall be imprisoned in the county 
jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty 
days; provided, that this section shall not limit 
or in any way affect civil liability on account of 
such trespass. Any owner or occupant of land 
may give the notice provided for in this section 
by maintaining signboards, at least one foot square, 
containing such notice upon at least every forty 
acres of the premises sought to be protected, in 
at least two conspicuous places, or by giving per- 
sonal, written or verbal notice. 



108 State Conservation Commissimt. 

Taking Frogs on Lands of Another. Section 

4565d??t. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
take, catch, kill or have in his possession any frogs 
or parts of frogs taken from lands owned by 
another without the consent of the owner of 
said lands, and any person violating the pro- 
visions of this section shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more 
than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than fifteen days nor more 
than sixty days. 

Removal of Live Fish or Fish Eggs. Section 
4567&. Any person who shall come into thir= 
state and remove fish eggs or fish of any variety 
therefrom while the fish are alive, without hav- 
ing a permit from the state conservation com- 
mission to do so, shall be fined not less than fifty 
dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not 
less than ten days nor more than thirty days. 

Unlawful Fishing by Employe of Conservation 
Conmiission. Section 4567c. It shall be unlaw- 
ful for any employe of the state conservation 
comjnission, while engaged in catching wild fish 
from the public waters for the purpose of arti- 
ficial propagation, to have in his possession any 
other kinds of fish than those he has been directed 
to take by the commission or its agent, duly auth- 
orized in writing. For violation of this section 
the offender shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars and be removed from any office or posi- 
tion he may hold under or by the authority of 
such commission. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. lOJ^ 

Section 4567&. Any person who shall enter 
upon the grounds of any state fish hatchery for 
the purpose of unlawfully killing or taking any 
fish therefrom shall be punished by a fine of not 
less than one hundred dollars nor more than two 
hundred dollars or by improvement not less than 
thirty days nor more than sixty days. 

Killing Fish in State Hatchery. Section 4567e. 
Any person who shall unlawfully and without 
proper authority kill, take or catch any fish from 
any waters or grounds belonging to or connected 
with any state fish hatchery shall be punished as 
provided in section 4415. 

Section 4567/. Any person who shall injure 
any fish, or in any manner interfere harmfully 
with the ponds, streams, troughs or other prop- 
erty of the state fish hatchery, without lawful 
authority so to do, shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 
hundred dollars; but this section shall in no wise 
change or affect any liability for arson or other 
burnings, nor burglary or other breakings,' nor 
larceny of any property. 

Summary Arrest. Section 4567fir. The person 
in charge of any fish hatchery is hereby em- 
powered and required summarily and without 
process to arrest any person, who has violated 
the provisions of either of the three preceding 
sections, found upon the grounds of any state 
fish hatchery, and to deliver such person forth- 
with to some proper ofiicer for prosecution. 

Section 20.205. All moneys, except fines, ac- 
cruing to the state by reason of any provision of 



110 State Conservation Commission. 

chapter 29 of the statutes, or otherwise received 
or collected by each and every person for or in 
behalf of the state conservation commission, if 
not payable into the forest reserve fund, shall 
constitute the "conservation fund" and shall be 
paid, within one week after receipt, into the state 
treasury and credited to said fund. No money 
shall be expended or paid from the conservation 
fund except in pursuance of an appropriation by 
law; but any unappropriated surplus in said fund 
may be expended subject to the approval of the 
governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer, 
for additional equipment, new buildings, new 
hatcheries, or hatchery ponds, property improve- 
ments, increasing the warden force at any par- 
ticular period, or any other similar special pur- 
pose except road work or improvement work on 
the state parks. 



FEDERAIi LAWS 

Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds 

All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, 
snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and 
all other migratory game and insectivorous birds 
which in their northern and southern migrations 
pass through or do not remain permanently the 
entire year within the borders of any stati or 
territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within 
the custody and protection of the Government 
of the United States, and shall not be destroyea 
or taken contrary to regulations hereinafter pro- 
vided therefor. 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. Ill 

The Department of Agriculture Is hereby auth- 
orized and directed to adopt suitable regulations 
to give effect to the previous paragraph by pre- 
scribing and fixing closed seasons, having due re- 
gard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, 
and times and line of migratory flight, thereby 
enabling the department to select and designate 
suitable districts for different portions of tho 
country, and it shall be unlawful to shoot or by 
any device kill or seize and capture migratory 
birds within the protection of this law during 
said closed seasons, and any person who shall 
violate any of the provisions or regulations of 
this law for the protection of migratory birds 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more 
than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the 
court. 

The Department of Agriculture, after the prep- 
aration of said regulations, shall cause the same 
to be made public, and shall allow a period of 
three months in which said regulations may be 
examined and considered before final adoption, 
permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings 
thereon, and after final adoption shall cause the 
same to be engrossed and submitted to the Pres- 
ident of the United States for approval: Provided 
however, That nothing h-erein contained shall he 
deemed to affect or interfere with the local laws 
af the states and territories for the protection of 
ttonmigratory game or other birds resident and 
breeding within their borders, nor to prevent the 
itat€s and territories from enacting laws and reg- 
tlations to promote and render efficient the reg- 
ulations of the Department of Agriculture pro- 
rided under this statute. 



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Federal Ren^ations for Protection of Migratowji 

Birds. 



On October 1st, 1913, the president gave hlii 
approval to certain regulations for the protection 
of migratory game and insectivorous birds that 
had been adopted and promulgated by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Weeks- 
McLean Migratory Bird Law. These regulations si 
became effective at once and have superseded i 
all state legislation, so far as closed seasons on 
migratory game and insectivorous birds are con- 
cerned. I 

The regulations are to be enforced by the fed- !i 

it 
eral government with the cooperation of the*: 

states; violations are triable only in the federal 1' 

courts, and prosecutions may be brought at any ! 

time within three years of the date of the offense. ! 

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Open Season Under Federal Regulations. I 

Water-fowl, rails, coots, gallinules, plover, jack- | 
■nipe, and yellow-legs, in Wisconsin: September i 
15 to December 31. \ 

Shooting prohibited between sunset and 30 ; 
minutes before sunrise. i 

Consult State laws. A state date governs when 
It opens the season later or closes it earlier than 
the Federal Regulation 

The liacey Law. ' 

Section 241. The importation into the United 
States, or any territory or district thereof, of the 
mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes" or frui^ 
bats, the English sparrow, the starling, and such 
other birds and animals as the Secretary of Ag- 



Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 113 

riculture may from time to time declare to be 
injurious to the interests of agriculture or hor- 
ticulture, is hereby prohibited; and all such birds 
and animals shall, upon arrival at any port of 
the United States, be destroyed or returned at 
the expense of the owner. No person shall im- 
port into the United States or into any territory 
or district thereof, any foreign wild animal or 
bird, except under special permit from the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing 
in this section shall restrict the importation of 
natural-history specimens for museums or scientif- 
ic collections, or of certain cage birds, such as 
domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds 
as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized 
to make regulations for carrying into effect the 
provisions of this section. 

Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to deliver to any common carrier for trans- 
portation, or for any common carrier to transport 
from any State, territory, or District of the United 
States, to any other state, territory, or District 
thereof, any foreign animals or birds, the impor- 
tation of which is prohibited, or the dead bodies 
or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, 
where such animals or birds have been killed or 
shipped in violation of the laws of the state, ter- 
ritory, or district in which the same were killed, 
9r from which they were shipped: Provided, that 
nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of 
any dead birds or animals killed during the season 
when the same may be lawfully captured, and the 
export of which is not prohibited by law in the 
state, territory, or district in which the same are 
captured or killed: Provided further, That nothing 



114 State Conservation Commission. 

herein shall prevent the importation, transpor- 
tation, or sale of birds or bird plumage, manu- 
factured from the feathers of barnyard fowls. 

Section 243. All packages containing the dead 
bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game 
animals, or game or other wild birds, when ship- 
ped in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be 
plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and 
address of the shipper, and the nature of the con- 
tents, be readily ascertained on an inspection of 
the outside of such package. 

Section 244. For each evasion or violation of 
any provision of the three sections last preceding, 
the shipper shall be fined not more than two hun- 
dred dollars; the consignee knowingly receiving 
such articles so shipped and transported in viola- 
tion of said sections shall be fined not more than 
two hundred dollars; and the carrier knowingly 
carrying or transporting the same in violation of 
said sections shall be fined not more than two 
hundred dollars. 



PREVENT FOREST FIRES 

The Conservation Commission is doing its 
to prevent forest fires, but it needs the hej 
every person who goes into the woods for bufii 
or pleasure to make its work effective. , 

The Danger from Forest Fires Cannot be ] 
inated without the Cooperation o<f Every Ci 
of the State. 

IP YOU ARE A GUIDE, the burning of fq 
where you take parties for pleasure, n 
the loss of your source of employment^ 

IP YOU ARE A CAMPER, a single bad fore^ 
may destroy the attractive features of 
favorite camp site. 

IP YOU ARE A FISHERMAN OR HUNTER, 

sport may be spoiled by the burning ovi 
the forest you visit every year. j 

FIRE PREVENTION MEANS 1 

Increased talue. of property j 

Flourishing industries j 

More fish and game ] 

Beautiful scenery i 

Freer use of forest land for all. I 

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DON'T leave burning cigars, cigarettes orj 

ashes where they may set fire to inflami| 

material. 
DON'T leave your camp fire until you are M 

LUTEIiY SURE it is out. 
DON'T set fires to clear land or burn brush il 

. times. 
PUT OUT Alili FIRES YOU SEE IF YOU 
If the fire is too large for you to put out 
notify .the nearest Conservation warden, AT 
By putting out small fires you can preveni 
ones. 



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